Quotes By Khalil Gibran

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

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.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

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

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

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

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

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

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

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

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

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

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

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

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

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

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

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

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