Love Khalil Gibran Quotes

Even while the Earth sleeps we travel. ~ 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

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. ~ Khalil Gibran

All things in this creation exist within you and all things in you exist in creation; there is no border between you and the closest things, and there is no distance between you and the farthest things, and all things, from the lowest to the loftiest, from the smallest to the greatest, are within you as equal things. ~ Khalil Gibran

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you? ~ Khalil Gibran

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

I learnt silence from the talkative ~ Khalil Gibran

Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life. ~ Khalil Gibran

When a man's hand touches the hand of a woman, they both touch the heart of eternity. ~ Khalil Gibran

Many are the places of worship, but few indeed are those who worship in Spirit and in truth. ~ Khalil Gibran

Sorrow is too great to exist in small hearts. ~ Khalil Gibran

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them. ~ Khalil Gibran

When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful. ~ 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

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. ~ Khalil Gibran

He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans. ~ Khalil Gibran

Those to whom worshiping is a window, to open but also to shut, have not yet visited the house of their souls whose windows are open from dawn to dawn. ~ Khalil Gibran

The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him. ~ Khalil Gibran

God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind. ~ Khalil Gibran

Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb? ~ Khalil Gibran

Youth is a beautiful dream, on whose brightness books shed a blinding dust. Will ever the day come when the wise link the joy of knowledge to youth's dream? Will ever the day come when Nature becomes the teacher of man, humanity his book and life his school? Youth's joyous purpose cannot be fulfilled until that day comes. Too slow is our march toward spiritual elevation, because we make so little use of youth's ardor. ~ Khalil Gibran

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves. ~ 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

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

Darkness is dawn not yet born. ~ Khalil Gibran

And from that day to this, the wise men of Ishana say one to another secretly, "Is it not known, and has it not been said from of old, that Ishana is ruled by an enemy?"
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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

If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day. ~ Khalil Gibran

I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom; I am in comfort, I am in peace. ~ Khalil Gibran

And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears listening to the silence and its choirs singing the hymns of time, intoning the praises of the firmament, revealing the secrets of the invisible. ~ Khalil Gibran

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

They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see a slave sleeping, wake him and explain to him freedom. ~ 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

For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory. ~ 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

It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling. ~ Khalil Gibran

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation. ~ Khalil Gibran

Preacher's kids are often the ones that are least informed by the work that their parents are doing because it has something to do with the proximity and the intimacy as opposed to the saints and the congregation. ~ Khalil Gibran Muhammad

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve. ~ Khalil Gibran

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

Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men. ~ Khalil Gibran