Quotes by Khalil 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.
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
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.
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.
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
You have your ideology and I have mine.
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.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
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.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
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.
Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.
And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
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.
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
