Khalil Gibran Quotes
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.
Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
I do not want you to hear that I LOVE you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say.
There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.
Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another.
It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
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?
He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.
You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free!
