Khalil Gibran Quotes

True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does. Anonymous Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.

Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.

When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.

Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

When you are sorrowful, look again.

For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.

The first glance from the eyes of the beloved is like the spirit that moved upon the face of the waters, giving birth to heaven and earth.

If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.

All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.

We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting

Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.

Much of your pain is self-chosen.

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

A truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.

Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of people's wrath.

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection.

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

When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.

Follow your heart. Your heart is the right guide in everything big. Mine is so limited. What you want to do is determined by that divine element that is in each of us.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Say not, I have found the path of the soul Say rather, I have met the soul walking upon my path.

Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower. Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved.

God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.

Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.

I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes.

There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.

Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.

And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.

Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist.

A root is a flower that disdains fame.

Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.

He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

How can I lose faith in the justice of life, when the dreams of those who sleep upon feathers are not more beautiful than the dreams of those who sleep upon the earth?

Only love and death will change all things.