Quotes By Khalil Gibran

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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?