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Kahlil Gibran Quotes

A collection of inspirational quotes & sayings by Kahlil Gibran, a Mystical Poet, philosopher, artist, essayist and novelist. Author of "The Prophet"



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




Say not, 'I have found the truth, 'but rather, 'I have found a truth.'




You pray in your distress and in your need;
would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy
and in your days of abundance.




I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind. I should not be ungrateful to those teachers.



The appearance of things change according to the emotions,
and thus we see magic and beauty in them,
while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.




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




Love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.




Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet
and the winds long to play with your hair.




Faith is an oasis in the heart
which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking.



Doubt is a pain
too lonely to know
that faith is his twin brother.



Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran



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


Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
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.
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.
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.
Kahlil Gibran


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


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


If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
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.
Kahlil Gibran


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


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


If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Kahlil Gibran


If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
Kahlil Gibran


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.
Kahlil Gibran


Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Kahlil Gibran


Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.
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.
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?
Kahlil Gibran


A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
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.
Kahlil Gibran


All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
Kahlil Gibran


All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
Kahlil Gibran


An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
Kahlil Gibran


And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran


And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran


Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Kahlil Gibran


Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
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.
Kahlil Gibran


Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
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.
Kahlil Gibran


Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Kahlil Gibran


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


Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Kahlil Gibran


Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Kahlil Gibran


Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Kahlil Gibran


For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
Kahlil Gibran


Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran


Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Kahlil Gibran


Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Kahlil Gibran


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


Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
Kahlil Gibran


Love is trembling happiness.
Kahlil Gibran


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


Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
Kahlil Gibran


Love... It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
Kahlil Gibran


Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
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.
Kahlil Gibran


Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
Kahlil Gibran

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Kahlil Gibran


No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
Kahlil Gibran


Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Kahlil Gibran


Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
Kahlil Gibran


Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Kahlil Gibran


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


Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Kahlil Gibran


Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Kahlil Gibran


Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
Kahlil Gibran


Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
Kahlil Gibran


Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
Kahlil Gibran


Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
Kahlil Gibran


Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Kahlil Gibran


Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
Kahlil Gibran


The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
Kahlil Gibran


The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
Kahlil Gibran


The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
Kahlil Gibran


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


The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
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.
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.
Kahlil Gibran


There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Kahlil Gibran


They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
Kahlil Gibran


Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Kahlil Gibran


To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
Kahlil Gibran


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


Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Kahlil Gibran


Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
Kahlil Gibran


We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Kahlil Gibran


What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
Kahlil Gibran


What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
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.
Kahlil Gibran


When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
Kahlil Gibran


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.
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


When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
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?
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


Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Kahlil Gibran


Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
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.
Kahlil Gibran


Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
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Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
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You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
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


You have your ideology and I have mine.
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.
Kahlil Gibran


Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
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Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
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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.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
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