Khalil Gibran Quotes
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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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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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Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
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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.
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Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
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Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
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I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
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Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
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Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
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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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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
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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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They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
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Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
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I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
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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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Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
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If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
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Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?