Khalil Gibran Quotes
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When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
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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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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
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The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
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You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
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If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.
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Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
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Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
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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?
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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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Love is trembling happiness.
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Your friend is your needs answered.
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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
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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.
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Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
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If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
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Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
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Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
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Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
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Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.