Khalil Gibran Quotes
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Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
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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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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
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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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Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
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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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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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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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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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All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
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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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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
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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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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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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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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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Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
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Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
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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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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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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.