Quotes By Khalil Gibran

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.

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

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.

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

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

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

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.

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 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.

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

Your friend is your needs answered.

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

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

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

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

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

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.

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

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

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?

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

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