Khalil Gibran
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.Collection: Sad
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.Collection: Death
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.Collection: Equality
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.Collection: Friendship
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.Collection: Wisdom
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.Collection: Friendship
Your friend is your needs answered.Collection: Friendship
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.Collection: Poetry
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.Collection: Love
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.Collection: Religion
Love is trembling happiness.Collection: Happiness
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.Collection: Truth
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.Collection: Family
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.Collection: Religion
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?Collection: Power
But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.Collection: Love
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.Collection: Knowledge
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?Collection: Music
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.Collection: Dreams
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.Collection: Strength
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.Collection: Teacher
Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.
I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
You have your ideology and I have mine.
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
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.
Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.