Khalil Quotes

And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.

Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?

You have your ideology and I have mine.

Am I less man because I believe in a greater man?

Love one another, but make not a bond of love.

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.

Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.

Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.

And alone and without his nest shall the Eagle fly across the sun.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

To know the pain of too much tenderness

A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.

Love provided me with a tongue and tears.

The only time a juggler / Appeals to me / Is when I see him / Miss the ball.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

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.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

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.

Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings.

The best love come from the heart, not from the mouth.

Love that is cleansed by tears will remain eternally pure and beautiful.

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.

Your body is the harp of the soul.

Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Poverty hides itself in thought before it surrenders to purses.

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.

In friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.

Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets

Qualities of Good Citizens... is to admire what others have created in love and faith

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.

Our pain carves out a larger space for love to fill.

You shall be held down by the chains of your own judgment.

Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.