Khalil Gibran Quotes
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Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
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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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If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
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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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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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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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Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
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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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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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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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Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
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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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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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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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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
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Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
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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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Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
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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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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
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Love is trembling happiness.