Khalil Gibran Quotes And Sayings

Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer of the New York Pen League. Gibran was born in the town of Bsharri in the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate, Ottoman Empire, to Khalil Gibran and Kamila Gibran. His romantic style was at the heart of a renaissance in modern Arabic literature, especially prose poetry, breaking away from the classical school. In Lebanon, he is still celebrated as a literary hero. He is chiefly known in the English-speaking world for his 1923 book The Prophet, an early example of inspirational fiction including a series of philosophical essays written in poetic English prose.

Your Pain Is The Breaking Of The Shell That Encloses Your Understanding.

All Our Words Are But Crumbs That Fall Down From The Feast Of The Mind.

Friendship Is Always A Sweet Responsibility, Never An Opportunity.

Safeguarding The Rights Of Others Is The Most Noble And Beautiful End Of A Human Being.

Time Has Been Transformed, And We Have Changed; It Has Advanced And Set Us In Motion; It Has Unveiled Its Face, Inspiring Us With Bewilderment And Exhilaration.

You Have Your Ideology And I Have Mine.

Would That I Were A Dry Well, And That The People Tossed Stones Into Me, For That Would Be Easier Than To Be A Spring Of Flowing Water That The Thirsty Pass By, And From Which They Avoid Drinking.

Say Not, 'I Have Found The Truth,' But Rather, 'I Have Found A Truth.'

Progress Lies Not In Enhancing What Is, But In Advancing Toward What Will Be.

Love And Doubt Have Never Been On Speaking Terms.

Sadness Is But A Wall Between Two Gardens.

Life Without Love Is Like A Tree Without Blossoms Or Fruit.

We Choose Our Joys And Sorrows Long Before We Experience Them.

A Friend Who Is Far Away Is Sometimes Much Nearer Than One Who Is At Hand. Is Not The Mountain Far More Awe-inspiring And More Clearly Visible To One Passing Through The Valley Than To Those Who Inhabit The Mountain?

Your Living Is Determined Not So Much By What Life Brings To You As By The Attitude You Bring To Life; Not So Much By What Happens To You As By The Way Your Mind Looks At What Happens.

Faith Is An Oasis In The Heart Which Will Never Be Reached By The Caravan Of Thinking.

If Your Heart Is A Volcano, How Shall You Expect Flowers To Bloom?

Beauty Is Eternity Gazing At Itself In A Mirror.

Generosity Is Giving More Than You Can, And Pride Is Taking Less Than You Need.

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.

Out Of Suffering Have Emerged The Strongest Souls; The Most Massive Characters Are Seared With Scars.

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.

Poverty Is A Veil That Obscures The Face Of Greatness. An Appeal Is A Mask Covering The Face Of Tribulation.

Zeal Is A Volcano, The Peak Of Which The Grass Of Indecisiveness Does Not Grow.

To Understand The Heart And Mind Of A Person, Look Not At What He Has Already Achieved, But At What He Aspires To.

Pain And Foolishness Lead To Great Bliss And Complete Knowledge, For Eternal Wisdom Created Nothing Under The Sun In Vain.

If You Love Somebody, Let Them Go, For If They Return, They Were Always Yours. And If They Don't, They Never Were.

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.

The Eye Of A Human Being Is A Microscope, Which Makes The World Seem Bigger Than It Really Is.

Wisdom Stands At The Turn In The Road And Calls Upon Us Publicly, But We Consider It False And Despise Its Adherents.

Advance, And Never Halt, For Advancing Is Perfection. Advance And Do Not Fear The Thorns In The Path, For They Draw Only Corrupt Blood.

Coming Generations Will Learn Equality From Poverty, And Love From Woes.

Generosity Is Not Giving Me That Which I Need More Than You Do, But It Is Giving Me That Which You Need More Than I Do.

Where Is The Justice Of Political Power If It Executes The Murderer And Jails The Plunderer, And Then Itself Marches Upon Neighboring Lands, Killing Thousands And Pillaging The Very Hills?

Nor Shall Derision Prove Powerful Against Those Who Listen To Humanity Or Those Who Follow In The Footsteps Of Divinity, For They Shall Live Forever. Forever.

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.

Yesterday We Obeyed Kings And Bent Our Necks Before Emperors. But Today We Kneel Only To Truth, Follow Only Beauty, And Obey Only Love.

Rebellion Without Truth Is Like Spring In A Bleak, Arid Desert.

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.

Many A Doctrine Is Like A Window Pane. We See Truth Through It But It Divides Us From Truth.

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.

The Just Is Close To The People's Heart, But The Merciful Is Close To The Heart Of God.

There Are Those Who Give With Joy, And That Joy Is Their Reward.

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.

Love... It Surrounds Every Being And Extends Slowly To Embrace All That Shall Be.

If You Cannot Work With Love But Only With Distaste, It Is Better That You Should Leave Your Work.

Most People Who Ask For Advice From Others Have Already Resolved To Act As It Pleases Them.

Knowledge Cultivates Your Seeds And Does Not Sow In Your Seeds.

If My Survival Caused Another To Perish, Then Death Would Be Sweeter And More Beloved.