Khalil Gibran quotes

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

— Khalil 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.”

— Khalil Gibran

“Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

— Khalil 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.”

— Khalil Gibran

“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”

— Khalil Gibran

“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.”

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Khalil Gibran

“Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.”

— Khalil Gibran

“If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.”

— Khalil Gibran

“I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.”

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Khalil Gibran

“Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.”

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Khalil Gibran

“Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.”

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Khalil Gibran

“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.”

— Khalil 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.”

— Khalil Gibran

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Khalil Gibran

“Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.”

— Khalil 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.”

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Khalil Gibran

“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”

— Khalil Gibran

“All that spirits desire, spirits attain.”

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Khalil Gibran

“Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.”

— Khalil Gibran

“Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.”

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Khalil 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.”

— Khalil Gibran

“The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.”

— Khalil Gibran