Khalil Gibran Quotes (311 Quotes)

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

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

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

I am Word uttering introduction to the play of happiness and peace.

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.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.

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

Surely you would not honour one guest above the other; for he who is more mindful of one loses the love and the faith of both.

You are blind and I am deaf and dumb, so let us touch hands and understand

Do not be frightened, for I am now Truth, spared from swords and fire to reveal to the people the triumph of Love over War.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

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

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

And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.

At dawn I recite the rules of love upon
His ears, and he embraces me longingly.

I shall take it now in the name of evil!

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

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

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

Yet, I am still seeking truth.

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

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

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

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

That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man

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.

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

Yet unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.

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

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

Be not sad, but smile, my beloved.

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

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

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

And my heart spoke to the daughter of Love saying, Oh Love, where can I find Contentment?

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

When youth
Overtakes me he forgets his toil, and his
Whole life becomes reality of sweet dreams.

Fare you well, people of Orphalese.

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

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.