Khalil Gibran Quotes

Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality

The best love come from the heart, not from the mouth.

When God threw me, a pebble, into this wondrous lake, I disturbed its surface with countless circles. But when I reached the depths, I became very still.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.

I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.

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

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

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

Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.

We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.

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

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.

The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. But it is night that raises them to the stars.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.

Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.

Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.

When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.

The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

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

Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.

You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.

All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.

I do not want you to hear that I LOVE you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

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

Listen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.

How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.

I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

You are far, far greater than you know - and all is well.

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.

Much of your pain is self-chosen.

There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.

If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.

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.

Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.

A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.

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

Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.

The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

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

Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.

All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.

All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.

How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.

Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.

He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.

The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

Darkness is dawn not yet born.

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.

Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist.

Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.

In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.

Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.

Rest in reason. Move in Passion.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.

Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.

The true wealth of a nation lies not in it's gold or silver but in it's learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its sons.

Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.

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

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

A root is a flower that disdains fame.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.

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

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

To belittle, you have to be little.

Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.

Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.

Love is timeless.... Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.

If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.

Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.

Only love and death will change all things.

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

Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born.

Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.

I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.

The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.

You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.

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.

The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.