Khalil Gibran quotes

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

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.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

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.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

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.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

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.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. 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.

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

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.

Love is trembling happiness.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

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.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

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.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

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.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

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.

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.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

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.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

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.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

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.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

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.

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?

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

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.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. 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.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

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.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

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.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

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.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Love is trembling happiness.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.