Quotes By Khalil Gibran

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.