Khalil Gibran's "The Prophet" Quotes Archives - Famous Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

For love is sufficient unto love.
—Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"

What is fear of need but need itself?
—Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"

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.
—Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"

If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life.
—Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"

You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care, nor your nights without a want and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.
—Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"

And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone.
—Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"

The mind speaks not more sweetly to the giant Oaks than to the least of all blades of grass, And he alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving
—Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"

For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose windows are the songs and the silences of night.
—Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"

When love beckons to you, follow him,
—Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"

Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through me?
—Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"

Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?
—Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"

You who travel with the wind, what weather vane shall direct your course?
—Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"

As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.
—Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"

The musician may sing to you of the rhythm which is in all space, but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rhythm, nor the voice that echoes it.
—Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"

For the soul walks upon all paths.
—Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"

When the treasure-keeper lifts you to weigh his gold and his silver, needs must your joy or your sorrow rise or fall.
—Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"

And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.
—Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"

Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?
—Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"

Your children are not your children.
—Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"

Aye, and he falls for those ahead of him, who, though faster and surer of foot, yet removed not the stumbling stone.
—Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"

The self same well from which your laughs rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.
—Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"

For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.
—Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"

Work with love, it is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart.
—Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"

And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered. For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.
—Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"

It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.
—Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"

Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast.
—Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"

Build of your imaginings a bower in the wilderness ere you build a house within the city walls.
—Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"

THEN said a rich man, Speak to us of Giving.
—Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"

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.
—Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"