Quotes By Khalil Gibran

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

Love is trembling happiness.

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.

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

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

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

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.

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

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

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

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.

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

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

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?

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

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

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

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

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.