Khalil Gibran Quotes (311 Quotes)



    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.

    Love - which is God - will consider our sighs and tears as incense burned at His altar and He will reward us with fortitude.

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


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

    Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.

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

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

    You fear heaven, the source of spiritual peace; you fear nature, the haven of rest and tranquility; you fear the God of goodness and accuse him of anger, while he is full of love and mercy.

    The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose

    In the city of the living I found hope and despair; love and hatred, joy and sorrow, wealth and poverty, faith and infidelity.

    The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.



    One hour devoted to the pursuit of Beauty
    And Love is worth a full century of glory
    Given by the frightened weak to the strong.

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

    Thus, my child, man cannot reap love until after sad and revealing separation, and bitter patience, and desperate hardship.

    Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. 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 y

    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.

    They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, tr

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

    Perhaps Time's Definition of Coal is the Diamond.

    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.

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

    Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

    And when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.

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

    He gave her the cup of happiness and said, "Drink not from this cup unless you forget the past and the future, for happiness is naught but the moment.

    Lament me not, but sing songs of youth and joy;
    Shed not tears upon me, but sing of harvest and the winepress;
    Utter no sigh of agony, but draw upon my face with your
    Finger the symbol of Love and Joy.

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

    For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory.

    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.

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

    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.

    Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

    All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

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

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

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

    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.

    Often times I have hated in self-defense if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.

    Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your body and less of your raiment

    And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.

    When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

    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.

    I have exhausted my tears and can offer no more, oh Lord, full of love and mercy.

    Desire is half of life indifference is half of death.

    Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.


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