Famous Quotes by Khalil Gibran

“They say: 'If a man knew himself,he would know all mankind.'I say: 'If a man loved mankind,he would know something of himself.”

Khalil Gibran

“Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.”

Khalil Gibran

“When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”

Khalil Gibran

“For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended,is a flame that burns to its own destruction.”

Khalil Gibran

“It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one to understand it.”

Khalil Gibran

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

Khalil Gibran

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.

Khalil Gibran

We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.

Khalil Gibran

The lust for comfort murders the passions of the soul.

Khalil Gibran

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

Khalil Gibran

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Khalil Gibran

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

Khalil Gibran

Let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Khalil Gibran

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Khalil Gibran

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Khalil Gibran

The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

Khalil Gibran

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

Khalil Gibran

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

Khalil Gibran

Work is love made visible.

Khalil 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.

Khalil Gibran

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

Khalil Gibran

Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure.

Khalil Gibran

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Khalil Gibran

To be emotionless is not to be without feelings, but to rise above them in a way that allows clarity of thought and action.

Khalil Gibran