Quotes By Khalil Gibran

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.

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.

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

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.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.