Khalil Gibran Quotes (311 Quotes)

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Then my heart looked upon Life of Beauty and said: Thou art all knowledge; enlighten me as to the mystery of Woman.

People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.

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

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

And what is it to work with love?

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

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

The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.

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

Your house is your larger body.

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

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.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore . . . but let there be spaces in your togetherness. And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Make me, oh God, the prey of the Lion, ere you make the rabbit my prey

Beauty is a terrible power!

the silence that guards the tomb does not reveal God's secret in the obscurity of the coffin, and the rustling of the branches whose roots suck the body's elements do not tell the mysteries of the grave, by the agonized sighs of my heart announce to the living the drama which love, beauty, and death have performed.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

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.

For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.

It was but yesterday we met in a dream.

And let your best be for your friend.

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.

He gave to Man a blind power that rages and drives him into a madness which extinguishes only before gratification of desire, and placed life in him which is the specter of death.

This is wisdom which man must learn.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

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.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

Virtue tested Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

Even while the earth sleeps we travel.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

As they disappeared from my sight, I commenced to make comparison between love and money, and to analyze their position in the heart.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.

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

Be consoled in our delay our delay, for we have taken an oath and entered Love's shrine; for our love will ever grow in adversity; for it is in Love's name that we are suffering the obstacles of poverty and the sharpness of misery and the emptiness of separation.

Much of your pain is self-chosen.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

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

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.