Famous Quotes By Kahlil Gibran

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




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?


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.


Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Kahlil Gibran Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery




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.


Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.


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


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.
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.



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.



I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.



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.



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.


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



Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.


Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.



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 timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.



There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.



To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.



When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. 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.



When you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labor you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.



Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?



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



Your children are not your children. / They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.



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.