Khalil Gibran Quotes
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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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If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
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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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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
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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.
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If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
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Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
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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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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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Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
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Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
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Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.
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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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You have your ideology and I have mine.
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Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
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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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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
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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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Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
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Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
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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.