Kahlil Gibran, Sand And Foam Quotes

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

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

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

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

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.

You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.

Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

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

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

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

You may judge others only according to your knowledge of yourself.

You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.

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

Long ago you were a dream in your mother's sleep, and then she awoke to give you birth.

Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets.

Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do.

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.

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