Quotes by Khalil Gibran
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfful to seek other than itself.
Where is the justice of political power if it... marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
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.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
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?
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.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer?
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.
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
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.
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
