Khalil Gibran Quotes
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What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
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Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
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Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
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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.
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Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
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Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
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Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
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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.
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If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
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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?
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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.
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All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
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Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
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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.
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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.
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
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Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'