Khalil Gibran
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.Collection: Love You
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.Collection: Wisdom
We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.Collection: Vision
Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.Collection: Spiritual
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.Collection: Thinking
How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.Collection: Beautiful
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: Love
Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.Collection: Hate
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.Collection: Inspirational
God has created several doors which open onto truth. He opens them to all those who knock on them with the hand of faith.Collection: Doors
In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.Collection: Song
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.Collection: Love
Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came to make the human heart a temple, and the soul an altar, and the mind a priest.Collection: Jesus
It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.Collection: Crush
Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.Collection: Relationship
I do not want you to hear that I LOVE you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say.Collection: Love You
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.Collection: Music
All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.Collection: All Things
Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen to the other because our heart-threads had become weak and even breathing would have broken them.Collection: Heart
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Doubt is a foundling unhappy and astray, and though his own mother who gave him birth should find him and enfold him, he would withdraw in caution and in fear.Collection: Mother
If winter should say, 'Spring is in my heart,' who would believe winter?Collection: Spring
Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.Collection: Suicide
But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.Collection: Love
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.Collection: Love
Which of you would be silent - when all else sings together in unison?Collection: Silence
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.Collection: Inspirational
Defeat, my defeat, my deathless courage, You and I shall laugh together with the storm, And together we shall dig graves for all that die in us, and we shall stand in the sun with a will, And we shall be dangerousCollection: Laughing
And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.Collection: Passion
Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.Collection: Philosophy
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy, you may find in them a harness and a chain. Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your body and less of your raiment.Collection: Wind
But now I have learned to listen to silence. To hear its choirs singing the song of ages, chanting the hymns of space, and disclosing the secrets of eternity.Collection: Song
Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it. Kahlil Gibran (Visions of the Prophet)Collection: Love Is
Work is love made visable.Collection: Made
Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regretsCollection: Regret
They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.Collection: Giving
God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.Collection: Inspirational
He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.Collection: Mother
Limited love asks for possession of the beloved, but the unlimited asks only for itself.Collection: Beloved
You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.Collection: Spiritual
Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings.Collection: Wings