Words matter. These are the best Khalil Gibran Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
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.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. 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.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Your friend is your needs answered.
What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
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?
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.
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.
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
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.
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
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.
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
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.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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.
Love is trembling happiness.
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?
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.
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.
They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.