Khalil Gibran famous quotes

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

#Inspirational #Life #Dream

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

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

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

#Life #Happiness #Success

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Love #Inspirational #Life

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.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Beauty #Heart #Second Chance

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Attitude #Freedom #4th Of July

Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Cities #Sheep #Silence

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

#Love #Moving On #Marriage

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Kindness

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

#Love #Relationship #Smile

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?
-- Khalil Gibran

#Friendship #Best Friend #Real Friends

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Dream #Daughter #Children

The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Reality #Listening #Doe

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

#Inspirational #Life #Spiritual

Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Passion #Enthusiasm #Reason

The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Country #Tribes #Humans

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Beautiful #War #Rights

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Spiritual #Truth #Half

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

#Love #Motivational #Family

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

#Wisdom #Selfish #Laughing

Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Heart #Roots #Vines

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Men #Yardsticks #Riches

God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Life #Military #War

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.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Inspirational #Education #Wise

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
-- Khalil Gibran

#Love #Flower #Anger

Work is love made visible.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Inspiring #Inspirational Life #Work

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

#Uplifting #Faith #Philosophical

The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Passion #Soul #Lust

Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Coal #Definitions #Jewelry

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

#Love #Life #Beauty

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

#Inspirational #Life #Happiness

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

#Inspirational #Life #Humility

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.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Inspirational #Life #Positive

When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay. And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart; For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed. When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Friendship #Heart #Grieving

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.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Inspirational #Life #Faith

Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Being Alone #Doe #Slavery

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

#Pain #Joy #Poetry

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Love #Life #Tree

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Spiritual #Cells #Window

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Heart #People

How can I lose faith in the justice of life, when the dreams of those who sleep upon feathers are not more beautiful than the dreams of those who sleep upon the earth?
-- Khalil Gibran

#Beautiful #Dream #Sleep

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Doors #Welcome #Made

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Spiritual #Philosophy #Listening

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Love #Doubt #Term

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

#Inspirational #Life #Inspiring

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

#Inspirational #Life #Kindness

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Life #Spiritual #Wisdom

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Nature #Writing #Sky

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

#Inspirational #Faith #Lonely

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.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Love #Son #Religion

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

#Eye #Vision #World

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Ocean #Water #Secret

Whoever would be a teacher of men let him begin by teaching himself before teaching others; and let him teach by example before teaching by word. For he who teaches himself and rectifies his own ways is more deserving of respect and reverence than he who would teach others and rectify their ways.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Respect #Teacher #Teaching

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

#Dream #Reality #Vision

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

#Beauty #Heart #Eye

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Pain #Heart #Understanding

And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
-- Khalil Gibran

#Thinking #Knives #Woods

And if there come the singers, and the dancers and the flute players - buy of their gifts also. For they too are gatherers of fruit and frankincense, and that which they bring, though fashioned of dreams, is raiment and fod for your soul.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Dream #Player #Dancer

God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Science #Religion #Lips

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

#Depression #Grief #Night

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Pain #Self #Sick

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body
-- Khalil Gibran

#Mind #Body #Slavery

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Doe

Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Giving #Soul #Your Soul

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
-- Khalil Gibran

#World #This World #Contempt

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Inspiring #Time #Exhilaration

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?
-- Khalil Gibran

#Music #Stupid #Heart

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy
-- Khalil Gibran

#Spiritual #Pain #Philosophy

Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Beauty #Faces #Holy

In the depths of your hopes and desires, lies your silent knowledge of the beyond, and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Death #Dream #Spiritual

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Life #Desire #Half

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Wedding #Heart #Hands

Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Freedom #Liberty

The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Men #Would Be #Awareness

Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless? And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the center of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds?
-- Khalil Gibran

#Love #Moving #Doe

Say not, I have found the path of the soul Say rather, I have met the soul walking upon my path.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Spiritual #Soul #Path

A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Love #Secret #Body

Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Love #Marriage #Wedding

Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Sympathy #Flower #Heart

Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Relationship #Faults #Preoccupation

Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Beautiful #Mother #Parenting

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Love #Inspirational #Dream

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Hate #Love Is #Said

That deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship began the first time I saw you,and it is the same now - only a thousand times deeper and tenderer. I shall love you to eternity. I loved you long before we met in this flesh. I knew that when I first saw you. It was destiny. We are together like this and nothing can shake us apart.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Love You #Destiny #Long

And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Inspirational #Mountain #Mountain Top

Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Struggle #Men #Political

Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Passion #Funeral #Lust

If we were to all sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Circles #Laughing #Relaxation

You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Dream #Children #Parenting

The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Kings #Heart #Men

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

#Aggravation #Vision #Mesh

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

#Fall #Writing #Mind

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.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Love #Marriage #Dance

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

#Inspirational #Wisdom #May

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

#Life #Art #Attitude

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Lying #Knowledge #Men

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

#Inspirational #Cute Life #Simplicity

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
-- Khalil Gibran

#Blood #Perfection #Path