Khalil Gibran
The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remain hovering over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves. I am one of those who remembers those places regardless of distance or time.Collection: Beautiful
Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?Collection: Trust
Love is the gentle smile upon the lips of beauty.Collection: Love Is
The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.Collection: Giving
True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does. Anonymous Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.Collection: Love
Yesterday is ever jealous of...tomorrow.Collection: Jealous
Your house is your larger body.Collection: House
There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.Collection: Generosity
For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.Collection: Communication
I learnt silence from the talkativeCollection: Silence
All work is empty save when there is love.Collection: Love
We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.Collection: Language
When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.Collection: Long
Say not, I have found the path of the soul Say rather, I have met the soul walking upon my path.Collection: Spiritual
For this I bless you most. You give much and know not that you give at all.Collection: Blessing
A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.Collection: Sometimes
Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing. Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that 'yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Dream
If any of you would bring judgment the unfaithful wife, let him also weight the heart of her husband in scales, and measure his soul with measurements.Collection: Husband
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth./The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.Collection: Children
Give me an ear and I will give you a Voice.Collection: Voice
Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.Collection: Heart
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.Collection: Song
He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.Collection: Wind
My God, my aim and my fulfillment; I am thy yesterday and thou are my tomorrow. I am they root in the earth and thou art my flower in the sky, and together we grow before the face of the sun.Collection: Religious
Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight more in breaking them.Collection: Law
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?Collection: Talking
Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?Collection: Occupation
Take then this Book, look into it, and show me when Jesus was not forgiving. Read this diving tragedy and tell me where He speaks without mercy and compassion. You visit not the sick and the imprisoned; nor do you feed the hungry or give refuge to the stranger or comfort to the mourner.Collection: Jesus
The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among us. He laughed and said, "This is too hard a thing to do, and it will take too long. Were it not better to count only the wise?"Collection: Wise
Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be happy on this earth and lead the way to felicity and preach its gospel wherever he goes. He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life. We came not into this life by exile, but we came as innocent creatures of God, to learn how to worship the holy and eternal spirit and seek the hidden secrets within ourselves from the beauty of life.Collection: Life
When you are sorrowful, look again.Collection: Sympathy
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
Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination.Collection: Determination
Humanity is a river of light running from the ex-eternity to eternity.Collection: Running
That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined. Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones?Collection: Determined
Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Beautiful
And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone. Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him, who though faster and surer of foot, yet removed not the stumbling stone.Collection: Fall
In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe to all men.Collection: Men
Let there be spaces in your togetherness...just as strings of a lute dance alone though they quiver with the same music.Collection: Space
Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east.Collection: Dawn
For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether?Collection: Prayer
He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.Collection: Truth Is
Conscience is a just but weak judge. Weakness leaves it powerless to execute its judgment.Collection: Judging
The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.Collection: Democracy
Life is the mistress to be wooed.Collection: Life
The envier praises me unknowingly.Collection: Praise
My proof convinces the ignorant, and the wise man's proof convinces me. But he whose reasoning falls between wisdom and ignorance, I neither can convince him, nor can he convince me.Collection: Wise