Khalil Gibran Quotes
If we were to all sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality.
He that tries to seize an opportunity after it has passed him by is like one who sees it approach but will not go to meet it.
The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness.
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
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.
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.
Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.
Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.
Love descends upon our souls by the will of God and not by the demand or the plea of the individual.
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf. For in that day you shall know the hidden purposes in all things. And you shall bless darkness as you would bless light.
Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness, for even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves also the bow that is stable.
He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans.
It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden forever in bloom and a flock of angels forever in flight.
Between the shores of the oceans and the summit of the highest mountain is a secret route that you must absolutely take before being one with the sons of the Earth.
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. But it is night that raises them to the stars.
Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?
Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.
Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.
When God threw me, a pebble, into this wondrous lake, I disturbed its surface with countless circles. But when I reached the depths, I became very still.
