Khalil Gibran Quotes
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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
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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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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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Love is trembling happiness.
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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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Your friend is your needs answered.
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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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When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
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Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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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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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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Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
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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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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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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
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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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Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
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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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The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
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Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
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Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.