Khalil Gibran Quotes

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.

The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.

For a love to grow through the test of everyday living, one must respect that zone of privacy where one retires to relate to the inside instead of the outside.

In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.

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

I love you, my brother, whoever you are - whether you worship in a church, kneel in your temple, or pray in your mosque. You and I are children of one faith, for the diverse paths of religion are fingers of the loving hand of the one supreme being, a hand extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, eager to receive all.

Like the ocean is your god-self; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like the sun is your god-self; It knows not the ways of the mole nor seeks it the holes of the serpent. But your god-self does not dwell alone in your being. Much in you is still man, and much in you is not yet man, But a shapeless pigmy that walks asleep in the mist searching for its own awakening.

I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.

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.

Do not keep crying when your love has been gone. You only need Smile because he had been given you the opportunity to meet someone who is better.

Let ignorance reproduce itself until it is weary of its own offspring.

Love that is cleansed by tears will remain eternally pure and beautiful.

You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.

He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater." But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy.

A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, “I will have a camel for lunch today.” And all morning he went about looking for camels. But at noon he saw his shadow again-and he said, “A mouse will do.

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun.

Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.

Should you really open your eyes and see, you would behold your image in all images. And should you open your ears and listen, you would hear your own voice in all voices.

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.

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night; and it is not dreamless. Does not your house dream, and dreaming, leave the city for grove or hilltop?

Limited love asks for possession of the beloved, but the unlimited asks only for itself.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain... When you are joyous look deep into your heart and you will find that it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

Take then this Book, look into it, and show me when Jesus was not forgiving. Read this diving tragedy and tell me where He speaks without mercy and compassion. You visit not the sick and the imprisoned; nor do you feed the hungry or give refuge to the stranger or comfort to the mourner.

A root is a flower that disdains fame.

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

When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.

Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means.

My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties.

Listen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.

Life is the mistress to be wooed.

Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Qualities of Good Citizens... is to admire what others have created in love and faith

You shall be held down by the chains of your own judgment.

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

The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.

joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.

He who denies his heritage, has no heritage