Khalil Gibran
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.Collection: Wisdom
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.Collection: Love
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.Collection: Knowledge
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.Collection: Brainy
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.Collection: Gardening
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.Collection: Moving
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.Collection: Sad
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.Collection: Sad
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.Collection: Sympathy
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.Collection: Dreams
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.Collection: Fear
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.Collection: Business
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.Collection: Faith
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.Collection: Knowledge
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.Collection: Love
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.Collection: Death
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.Collection: Work
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.Collection: Death
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.Collection: Knowledge
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.Collection: Beauty
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.Collection: Wisdom
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.Collection: Experience
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.Collection: Truth
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Wisdom
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.Collection: Faith
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.Collection: Trust
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.Collection: Truth
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.Collection: Life
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.Collection: Wisdom
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.Collection: Morning
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.Collection: Dreams
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.Collection: Time
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.Collection: Life
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.Collection: Life
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.Collection: Motivational
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.Collection: Life
If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.Collection: Religion
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
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.Collection: Knowledge
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.Collection: Knowledge
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.Collection: Wisdom
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?Collection: Love
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.Collection: Romantic
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.Collection: Beauty
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.Collection: Faith
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.Collection: Politics
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'Collection: Truth
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.Collection: Nature
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.Collection: Moving