Kahlil Gibran, النبي Quotes

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

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.

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.

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

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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.

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

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

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

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

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

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.

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

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

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

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

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.

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.

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

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

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

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

To belittle, you have to be little.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

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

You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

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

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

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

Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

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

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

I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.

Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

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

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.