Quotes by Kahlil Gibran
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
– Kahlil Gibran
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
– Kahlil Gibran
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
– Kahlil Gibran
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
– Kahlil Gibran
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
– Kahlil Gibran
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
– Kahlil Gibran
No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.
– Kahlil Gibran
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
– Kahlil 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.
– Kahlil Gibran
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
– Kahlil Gibran
Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
– Kahlil Gibran
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
– Kahlil Gibran
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
– Kahlil 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.
– Kahlil Gibran
Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
– Kahlil Gibran
To belittle, you have to be little.
– 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.
– Kahlil Gibran
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
– Kahlil Gibran
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
-Kahlil Gibran
Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality.
– Kahlil Gibran
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
– Kahlil Gibran
Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
– Kahlil 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.
– Kahlil Gibran
Qualities of Good Citizens… is to admire what others have created in love and faith.
– Kahlil Gibran
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans
– Kahlil Gibran
Life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.In the depths of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond; and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
– Kahlil Gibran
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
– Kahlil Gibran