Quotes by Khalil Gibran
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
- Khalil Gibran
No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.
- Khalil Gibran
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
- Khalil Gibran
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
- Khalil Gibran
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
- Khalil Gibran
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
- Khalil Gibran
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
- Khalil Gibran
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
- Khalil Gibran
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
- Khalil Gibran
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
- Khalil Gibran
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
- Khalil Gibran
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
- Khalil 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.
- Khalil Gibran
To belittle, you have to be little.
- Khalil Gibran
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran