Kahlil Gibran quotes
Born
January 6, 1883, Bsharri, Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate, Ottoman Syria.
Died
April 10, 1931.
Occupation
Poet, painter, writer, philosopher, theologian.
Gibran Khalil Gibran was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer of the New York Pen League. Gibran was born in the town of Bsharri in the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate.
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
– Kahlil Gibran
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
– Kahlil Gibran
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
– Kahlil Gibran
Love is trembling happiness.
– Kahlil Gibran
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
– Kahlil Gibran
The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
– Kahlil Gibran
When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
– Kahlil Gibran
I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
– Kahlil Gibran
Your friend is your needs answered.
– Kahlil Gibran
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.
– Kahlil Gibran
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
– Kahlil Gibran
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
– Kahlil Gibran
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
– Kahlil Gibran
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
– Kahlil Gibran
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
– Kahlil Gibran
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
– Kahlil Gibran
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
– Kahlil Gibran
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
– Kahlil Gibran
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
– Kahlil Gibran
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.
– Kahlil Gibran
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
– Kahlil Gibran
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
– Kahlil Gibran
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.
– Kahlil Gibran
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
– Kahlil Gibran
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
– Kahlil Gibran
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
– Kahlil Gibran
Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.
– Kahlil Gibran
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
– Kahlil Gibran
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
– Kahlil Gibran
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
– Kahlil Gibran
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
– Kahlil Gibran
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
– Kahlil Gibran
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
– Kahlil Gibran
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
– Kahlil Gibran
Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
– Kahlil Gibran
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
– Kahlil Gibran
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
– Kahlil Gibran
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
– Kahlil Gibran
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
– Kahlil Gibran
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.
– Kahlil Gibran
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
– Kahlil Gibran
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
– Kahlil Gibran
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
– Kahlil Gibran
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
– Kahlil Gibran
If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.
– Kahlil Gibran
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.
– Kahlil Gibran
Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.
– Kahlil Gibran
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.
– Kahlil Gibran
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
– Kahlil Gibran
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
– Kahlil Gibran
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
– Kahlil Gibran
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
– Kahlil Gibran
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
– Kahlil Gibran
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.
– Kahlil Gibran
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
– Kahlil Gibran
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
– Kahlil Gibran
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
– Kahlil Gibran
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
– Kahlil Gibran
What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
– Kahlil Gibran
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
– Kahlil Gibran
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
– Kahlil Gibran
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
– Kahlil Gibran
Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
– Kahlil Gibran
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.
– Kahlil Gibran
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
– Kahlil Gibran
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.
– Kahlil Gibran
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.
– Kahlil Gibran
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
– Kahlil Gibran
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
– Kahlil Gibran
Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
– Kahlil Gibran
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
– Kahlil Gibran
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
– Kahlil Gibran
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
– Kahlil Gibran
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
– Kahlil Gibran
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 you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
– Kahlil Gibran
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
– Kahlil Gibran
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
– Kahlil Gibran
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
– Kahlil Gibran