Khalil Jibran Quotes

You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps.
Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping.
For those who limp go not backwards.
But you who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness. ~ Kahlil Gibran

He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.
The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin. ~ Kahlil Gibran

i've made many mistakes in my life, making mistakes isn't one of them ~ Khalil Latrach

Happiness is a myth we seek,
If manifested surely irks;
Like river speeding to the plain,
On its arrival slows and murks.
For man is happy only in
His aspiration to the heights;
When he attains his goal, he cools
And longs for other distant flights. ~ Khalil Gibran

A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks; but the face which, in silence, does not announce hidden mysteries is not beautiful, regardless of the symmetry of its features. ~ Khalil Gibran

Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind. ~ Khalil Gibran

The morgue is the Mullah's mint: Why hang on to life in this world when our guardians are discounting the price of life and selling martyr's tickets to paradise? ~ Amir Khalil

And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. ~ Khalil Gibran

I know that Khalil will be famous one day - a rock star, a basketball hero, a politician who will become the first Arab American President of the United States because he is so beautiful, and he knows suffering, and he will be cured, and I know for sure: he will live long enough to enter a presidential election, he will live long past thirty-five. ~ Miah Arnold

I love my culture, I'm very proud to be Kurd. ~ Davan Yahya Khalil

Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted. ~ Khalil Gibran

Do you come from a culture where women wear veils but your friends wear thongs?
Does at least one of your parents speak English with an incomprehensible accent?
Did your parents have an arranged marriage … are they cousins?
Well folks, you've come to the right place. You are literally holding in your hands
the coveted answers to every question you ever had about your insane existence –
herein lies all the information you need to understand about why you're crazy!
And trust me, you are crazy!
That's right. It's true. You can't deny it. "
-From Veils to Thongs ~ Dalel B. Khalil

Poetry is not the opinion stated. It is a song that appears instead of a bloody wound or a smiling mouth. ~ Khalil Gibran

We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words. ~ Khalil Gibran

I learnt silence from the talkative ~ Khalil Gibran

Love is timeless ...
Death does not separate the lover from the beloved. ~ Khalil Gibran

The longing for paradise is paradise itself. ~ Khalil Gibran

Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born. ~ Khalil Gibran

Now let us play hide and seek. Should you hide in my heart it would not be difficult to find you. But should you hide behind your own shell, then it would be useless for anyone to seek you. ~ Khalil Gibran

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

I have learned that the place where I subsist is all places, and the space I occupy is all intervals. ~ Khalil

What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think. ~ Khalil Gibran

Why dispute what we shall be, when we know not even what we are. ~ Khalil Gibran

The power to Love is God's greatest gift to man, For it never will be taken from the Blessed one who loves. ~ Khalil Gibran

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

Work is love made visible. And what is it to work with love? the poet Khalil Gibran wrote. In the hospital, working with love sometimes requires putting people in danger. ~ Theresa Brown

I've always been optimistic. When things come together and I feel comfortable, I know I can be a productive player with an impact. ~ Khalil Greene

To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets. ~ Khalil Gibran

He who denies his heritage, has no heritage ~ Khalil Gibran

Many are the fools who say that Jesus stood in His own path and opposed Himself; that He knew not His own mind, and in the absence of that knowledge confounded Himself. ~ Khalil Gibran

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

Tears have cleansed my eyes, and errors have taught me the language of the hearts. ~ Khalil Gibran

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms. ~ Khalil Gibran

You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth. ~ Khalil Gibran

I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure." ~ Khalil Gibran

My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties. ~ Khalil Gibran

My Lebanon is a flock of birds fluttering in the early morning as shepherds lead their sheep into the meadow & rising in the evening as farmers return from their fields and vineyards.You have your Lebanon and its people. I have my Lebanon and its people. ~ Khalil Gibran

I want every image to be the beginning of an unseen image. ~ Khalil Gibran

There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence of a virgin's spirit into a perpetual awareness that makes a person forget the past, for it kindles fiercely in the heart the sweet and overwhelming hope of the coming future. ~ Khalil Gibran

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. ~ Khalil Gibran

Now I realize that the trees blossom in Spring and bear fruit in Summer without seeking praise; and they drop their leaves in Autumn and become naked in Winter without fearing blame. ~ Khalil Gibran

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert. ~ Khalil Gibran

We Kurd must do everything in our power to create structures which prevent the repeat of mass murder by our adversaries,
And It's better to call for independence. ~ Davan Yahya Khalil

Djinn were cursed with a terminal curiosity. It was often their worst weakness, and sometimes it was their downfall.
Khalil was no exception. If a door was open, he peeked through it. If it was closed, it made the peeking so much better. If the door was locked, well. There was a natural progression to this sort of thing. ~ Thea Harrison