Khalil Gibran
You who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.Collection: Strong
If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts.Collection: Wisdom
For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Truth
There is within me a friend who consoles me every time that troubles overwhelm me and misfortunes afflict me. The man who does not feel friendship towards himself is a public enemy, and he who finds no confidant within himself will die of despair. For life streams out of man's inner self and in no way from what surrounds him.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Strong
When you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth. It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house. It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit. It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit. Work is love made visibleCollection: Dream
A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, “I will have a camel for lunch today.” And all morning he went about looking for camels. But at noon he saw his shadow again-and he said, “A mouse will do.Collection: Morning
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.Collection: Jesus
In a dream I saw Jesus and My God Pan sitting together in the heart of the forest. They laughed at each other's speech, with the brook that ran near them, and the laughter of Jesus was the merrier. And they conversed long.Collection: Dream
Man is like the foam of the sea, that floats upon the surface of the water. When the wind blows, it vanishes, as if it had never been. Thus are our lives blown away by Death.Collection: Life
For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life’s procession that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite.Collection: Spiritual
How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.Collection: Singing
Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret?Collection: Wall
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.Collection: Mountain Peaks
My brothers, seek counsel of one another, for therein lies the way out of error and futile repentance. The wisdom of the many is your shield against tyranny. For when we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.Collection: Wisdom
To barter and lose is better than not to go forth.Collection: Loses
Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.Collection: Friendship
When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.Collection: Death
The mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale.Collection: Song
He was gentle, like a man mindful of his own strength. In my dreams I beheld the kings of the earth standing in awe in His presence.Collection: Dream
Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames.Collection: Love Is
You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth.Collection: Work
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.Collection: Moving On
One day you will ask me which is more important – my life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.Collection: Valentines Day
A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.Collection: World
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: Children
We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.Collection: Waiting
If it’s a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.Collection: Firsts
Learn the words of wisdom uttered by the wise and apply them in your own life. Live them – but do not a make a show of reciting them, for he who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass loaded with books.Collection: Book
Let us disperse from our aloofness and serve the weak who made us strong, and cleanse the country in which we live. Let us teach this miserable nation to smile and rejoice with heaven’s bounty and glory of life and freedom.Collection: Country
The first thought of God was an angel. The first word of God was a man.Collection: Firsts