Quotes By Khalil Gibran

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.

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

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.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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.

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

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

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

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.

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

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

Love is trembling happiness.

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.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

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

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

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

You have your ideology and I have mine.

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

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.

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.

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.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.