Khalil Gibran Quotes on Soul (14 Quotes)

For the soul walks upon all paths.

The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul.

Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.

All these things have you said of beauty. Yet in truth you spoke not of her but of needs unsatisfied, And 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. It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear, But rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears. It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden for ever in bloom and a flock of angels for ever in flight. People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and your are the mirror.

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.

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

You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth

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.

Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafairing soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining and p

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

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.

My soul is warning me of the doubt in your heart, for doubt in love is a sin.