Khalil Gibran Quotes

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

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

"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."

"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."

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

"Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity."

"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."

"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."

"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were."

"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."

"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."

"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path."

"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be."

"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking."

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."

"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."

"If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?"

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

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

"If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."

"And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

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

"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."

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

"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."

"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."

"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."

"But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."

"To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice."