Khalil Gibran Quotes

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

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

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.

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.

Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress." And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without." At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty."

Death changes nothing but the mask that covers our faces.

The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remain hovering over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves. I am one of those who remembers those places regardless of distance or time.

God has given you a spirit with wings on which to soar into the spacious firmament of Love and Freedom. Is it not pitiful than that you cut your wings with your own hands and suffer your soul to crawl like an insect upon the earth?

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

When God created Man, he gave him Music as a language different from all other languages. And early man sang his glory in the wilderness; and drew the hearts of kings and moved them from their thrones.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

For truth and the spirit will abide with the morrow.

The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.

I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.

Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility.

You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time

Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.

Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.

Inspiration will always sing; inspiration will never explain.

What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless?

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

And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.

And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless?

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.

My God, my aim and my fulfillment; I am thy yesterday and thou are my tomorrow. I am they root in the earth and thou art my flower in the sky, and together we grow before the face of the sun.

You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.

Art is a step in the known toward the unknown

And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone. Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him, who though faster and surer of foot, yet removed not the stumbling stone.

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

Yesterday is ever jealous of...tomorrow.

But memory is an autumn leaf that murmurs a while in the wind and then is heard no more.

No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.

I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom; I am in comfort, I am in peace.

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.

Love prides itself not only in the one who loves, but also in the beloved.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness...just as strings of a lute dance alone though they quiver with the same music.

Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?'

Disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds.