Quotes By Khalil Gibran

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.

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

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.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

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.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

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

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

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

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

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

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

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

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

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.

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

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

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.

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

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

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

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

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

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

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

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?

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

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