Freedom Khalil Gibran Quotes

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life. ~ Khalil Gibran

We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians. ~ Khalil Gibran

He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow man. ~ Khalil Gibran

A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success. ~ Khalil Gibran

Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations? ~ Khalil Gibran

The silence of the envious is too noisy. ~ Khalil Gibran

Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt. ~ Khalil Gibran

Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister, and the woman-friend, I would have been sleeping among those who seek the tranquility of the world with their snoring. ~ Khalil Gibran

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. ~ Khalil Gibran

If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth. ~ Khalil Gibran

The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds. ~ Khalil Gibran

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers. ~ Khalil Gibran

Yesterday is ever jealous of ... tomorrow. ~ Khalil Gibran

I am bored with gabbers and their gab; my soul abhors them ... Is there any place where there is no traffic in empty talk? Is there on this earth one who does not worship himself talking? ~ Khalil Gibran

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? ~ Khalil Gibran

The shepherd will deny the diseased lamb in fear of the flock. ~ Khalil Gibran

A minute moving among the patterns of beauty and the dreams of love is greater and more precious than an age filled with splendor granted by the weak to the strong. ~ Khalil Gibran

Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure? ~ Khalil Gibran

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. ~ Khalil Gibran

If winter should say, 'Spring is in my heart,' who would believe winter? ~ Khalil Gibran

Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires. ~ Khalil Gibran

Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff; and when they are with you, you can possess no greater treasures. ~ Khalil Gibran

The sea that calls all things unto her cals me, and I must embark. ~ Khalil Gibran

In truth we gaze but do not see, and hearken but do not hear; we eat and drink but do not taste. And there lies the difference between Jesus of Nazareth and ourselves. His senses were all continually made new, and the world to Him was always a new world. ~ Khalil Gibran

Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth. ~ Khalil Gibran

Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers. ~ Khalil Gibran

To barter and lose is better than not to go forth. ~ Khalil Gibran

You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor; and fitter that he should be a victim to the frailty of human instincts than that he should be powerful and crush the flowers of life and disfigure the beauties of feeling with his desire. ~ Khalil Gibran

It is only when you are pursued that you become swift. ~ Khalil Gibran

This for God and this for myself;
This for my soul, and this other for my body? ~ Khalil Gibran

How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away. ~ Khalil Gibran

You are a flower crushed beneath the feet of the animal that is concealed in a human being. Take comfort, in that you are the flower crushed and not the foot that has crushed it. ~ Khalil Gibran

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. ~ Khalil Gibran

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping,
For only the hand of God can contain your hearts. ~ Khalil Gibran

My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my thirst. But in this burning that is never extinguished is a joy that never wanes. ~ Khalil Gibran

Almost every society on this planet has a few human beings who seek to distract attention from what is really going on, often because they have been brainwashed by others. ~ Davan Yahya Khalil

We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams. ~ Khalil Gibran

In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song. ~ Khalil Gibran

The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation. ~ Khalil Gibran

What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless? ~ Khalil Gibran

If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning. ~ Khalil Gibran