Quotes By Khalil Gibran

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

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

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

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.

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?

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

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

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

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

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.

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

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

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

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

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.