Khalil Gibran Quotes

Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.

For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether?

The soul is an embryo in the body of Man, and the day of death is the Day of awakening, for it is the Great era of labour and the rich Hour of creation.

Many are the fools who say that Jesus stood in His own path and opposed Himself; that He knew not His own mind, and in the absence of that knowledge confounded Himself.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

Rob a neighbour with a smile.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

The brooks flow to their lover, the sea, and the flowers smile at the object of their passion, the light. The mist rolls down to its beloved, the valley. And I? In me is what brooks do not know, what flowers do not hear, what the mist does not apprehend. You see me alone in my love, solitary in my yearning.

We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another, and no sunrise finds us where left by sunset. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of that tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind to be scattered.

In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe to all men.

Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse.