Khalil Gibran quotes:

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Love is trembling happiness.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness, for even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves also the bow that is stable.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth./The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.

Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.

We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting

To belittle, you have to be little.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

Believing is a fine thing, but placing those beliefs into execution is a test of strength. Many are those who talk like the roar of the sea, gut their lives are shallow and stagnant, like the rotting marshes. Many are those who lift their heads above the mountain tops, but their spirits remain dormant in the obscurity of the caverns.

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears listening to the silence and its choirs singing the hymns of time, intoning the praises of the firmament, revealing the secrets of the invisible.

But now I have learned to listen to silence. To hear its choirs singing the song of ages, chanting the hymns of space, and disclosing the secrets of eternity.

Much of your pain is self-chosen.

Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist.

There is within me a friend who consoles me every time that troubles overwhelm me and misfortunes afflict me. The man who does not feel friendship towards himself is a public enemy, and he who finds no confidant within himself will die of despair. For life streams out of man's inner self and in no way from what surrounds him.

Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.

It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.

A root is a flower that disdains fame.

Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties.

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?