Famous Kahlil Gibran Quotations

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"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."
by Kahlil Gibran
"You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
by Kahlil Gibran
"The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities."
by Kahlil Gibran
"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."
by Kahlil Gibran
"They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve."
by Kahlil Gibran
"What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?"
by Kahlil Gibran
"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?"
by Kahlil Gibran
"Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
by Kahlil Gibran
"I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end."
by Kahlil Gibran
"If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul."
by Kahlil Gibran
"If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved."
by Kahlil Gibran
"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."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."
by Kahlil Gibran
"No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
by Kahlil Gibran
"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit."
by Kahlil Gibran
"If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."
by Kahlil Gibran
"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem."
by Kahlil Gibran
"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind."
by Kahlil Gibran
"In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Love... It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be."
by Kahlil Gibran
"When you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret."
by Kahlil Gibran
"When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'"
by Kahlil Gibran
"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."
by Kahlil Gibran
"The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is."
by Kahlil Gibran
"A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?"
by Kahlil Gibran
"A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror."
by Kahlil Gibran
"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."
by Kahlil Gibran
"All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind."
by Kahlil Gibran
"All that spirits desire, spirits attain."
by Kahlil Gibran
"And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
by Kahlil Gibran
"And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."
by Kahlil Gibran
"And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes."
by Kahlil Gibran
"As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
But you are life and you are the veil.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."
by Kahlil Gibran
"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."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes."
by Kahlil Gibran
"During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has really been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation"
by Kahlil Gibran
"Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God."
by Kahlil Gibran
"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
by Kahlil Gibran
"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?"
by Kahlil Gibran
"For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
Verily, when good is hungry is seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping,
For only the hand of God can contain your hearts."
by Kahlil Gibran
"God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them."
by Kahlil Gibran
"God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers."
by Kahlil Gibran
"Half of what I say is meaningless but I say it so that the other half may reach you."
by Kahlil Gibran
"He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy."
by Kahlil Gibran
"He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it."
by Kahlil Gibran
"History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history."
by Kahlil Gibran
"I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes."
by Kahlil Gibran
"I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes"
by Kahlil Gibran
"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."
by Kahlil Gibran
"I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end."
by Kahlil Gibran
"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."
by Kahlil Gibran
"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."
by Kahlil Gibran
"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."
by Kahlil Gibran
"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires."
by Kahlil Gibran
"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."
by Kahlil Gibran
"If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully."
by Kahlil Gibran
"If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember."
by Kahlil Gibran
"If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him, you will always remember"
by Kahlil Gibran
"If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches."
by Kahlil Gibran
"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work."
by Kahlil Gibran
"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were."
by Kahlil Gibran
"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were"
by Kahlil Gibran
"If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."
by Kahlil Gibran
"If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?"
by Kahlil Gibran
"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 the people's wrath."
by Kahlil Gibran


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