Famous Quotes

Quotes by Khalil Gibran

• A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
• Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
• And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
• Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
• Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
• 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.
• Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
• Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
• Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
• Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
• Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
• Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
• Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
• For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
• Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
• Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
• Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.
• 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.
• I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
• 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.
• I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
• I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
• If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
• 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.
• If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
• If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
• 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.
• 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.
• Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
• 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.
• Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
• Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
• Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
• Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
• Love is trembling happiness.
• Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
• Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
• Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.