Kahlil Gibran, النبي Quotes

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.

Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering.

Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.

There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.

Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.

For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy.

A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun.

For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart.

He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.

As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.

if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing

And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?

Let your home be you mast and not your anchor.

He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.

They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.'I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.

Darkness may hide the treesand the flowers from the eyesbut it cannot hidelove from the soul.

True beauty is a rayThat springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as lifesprings from the kernel of a stone andgives colour and scent to a flower.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit

The professors in the academy say, “Do not make the model more beautiful than she is, ” and my soul whispers, “O if you could only paint the model as beautiful as she really is.

Speak not of peoples and laws andKingdoms, for the whole earth isMy birthplace and all humans areMy brothers.

He suffered much, but he understood the mystery of pain: he knew that tears make all things shine.

Believing is a fine thing, but putting those beliefs into execution is a test of strength.

The house that does not comfort the needy is worthy of naught but destruction.

One hour devoted to mourning and lamenting theStolen equality of the weak is nobler than aCentury filled with greed and usurpation.

Do not blame a person for drinking lest he is trying to forget something more serious than drinking.

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

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

Love one another, but make not a bond of love:Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind forrevealing them to the trees.

It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one to understand it.

Ihr redet, wenn ihr aufhört mit euren Gedanken in Frieden zu sein.

Die Einsicht eines Menschen verleiht ihre Flügel keinem anderen.

Wenn [der Lehrer] wirklich weise ist, fordert er euch nicht auf, ins Haus seiner Weisheit einzutreten, sondern führt euch an die Schwelle eures eigenen Geistes.

Je tiefer sich das Leid in euer Sein eingräbt, desto mehr Freude könnt ihr fassen.

Behind the veil of each night, there is a smiling dawn.

I am forever walking upon these shores, Betwixt the sand and the foam, The high tide will erase my food prints, And the wind will blow away the foam, But the sea and the shore will remain forever.

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

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

I came here to be for all and with all, and what I do today in my solitudewill be echoed tomorrow by the multitude.What I say now with one heartwill be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts...

Your daily life is your temple and your religion.

And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth.

The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul.

The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it.".