Khalil Gibran Quotes on Life (37 Quotes)

All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.

For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life's procession that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite.

If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life.

They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

Could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy.

Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness

The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remaining over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves

It is life in quest of life in bodies that fear the grave.

He entered his palace saying, Everything in life is good; even gold, for it teaches a lesson.

My life is sustained by the world of beauty which you will see where ever you rest your eyes, and this beauty is nature itself; it is the beginning of the shepherds joy among the hills, and a villagers happiness in the fields, and the pleasure of the awe filled tribes between the mountains and the plains.

Talk not of banishment, for conscience
Is my judge and he will justify me
And protect me if I am innocent, and
Will deny me of life if I am a criminal.

I stood there, and it was entertaining to my soul - my thirsty soul who had seen naught but the mirage of life instead of its sweetness.

And He cloaked her in the shadow of confusion, which is the dawn of life and light.

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

And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream.

These are the believers in life and the bounty of life, and their coffer is never empty.

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

Today I am a slave standing before my wealth, my wealth which robbed me of the beauty of life I once knew.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

I commenced analyzing man's mission, but could conclude only that most of his life was identified with struggle and hardship.

Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love.

Come, my beloved; let us walk amidst the knolls,
For the snow is water, and Life is alive from its
Slumber and is roaming the hills and valleys.

When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.

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.

Desire is half of life indifference is half of death.

But to whom life is a rock, and the law a chisel with which they would carve it in their own likeness?

You have been told also life is darkness, and in your weariness you echo what was said by the weary.

Poet, you are the life of this life, and you have
Triumphed over the ages of despite their severity.

When you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.

Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, and in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life...

When life life does not find a singer to sing her heart, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind

I have accounts with Life requiring settling; I have due from people much gold; my ships have not reached the harbor; my demand, but spare my life.

Unit when shall you abide in the filth of life and continue to desert its gardens?

Give heed, Death -- I have but one child, and I love him dearly for he is my only joy in this life.

The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.