Khalil Gibran; sometimes spelled Kahlil; was a Lebanese-American writer, poet, visual artist and Lebanese nationalist. He is best known for his book The Prophet — a collection of essays in prose as well as poetry, exploring the meaning of life and the condition of man. Wise Khalil Gibran quotes will touch your heart, inspire growth in life and brighten up your day.
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Best Khalil Gibran Quotes
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. ― Kahlil Gibran
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts. ― Kahlil Gibran
Is not the truth of man as shown by you, but what can not be shown to you, so if you want to know do not listen to what he says , but to what Aicolh. – Khalil Gibran
Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
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. ― Kahlil Gibran
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. ― Kahlil Gibran
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all. ― Kahlil Gibran
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. – Kahlil Gibran
Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow. ― Kahlil Gibran
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. ― Kahlil Gibran
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose. – Khalil Gibran
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. ― Kahlil Gibran
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt? ― Kahlil Gibran
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. ― Kahlil Gibran
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem. – Khalil Gibran
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation. ― Kahlil Gibran
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were. ― Kahlil Gibran
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. ― Kahlil Gibran
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. – Khalil Gibran
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities. – Khalil Gibran
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. ― Kahlil Gibran
The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. – Khalil Gibran
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ― Kahlil Gibran
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. ― Kahlil Gibran
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. ― Kahlil Gibran
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. ― Kahlil Gibran
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. ― Kahlil Gibran
Famous Khalil Gibran Quotes About Life, Love and Inner Peace
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? ― Kahlil Gibran
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. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow. ― Kahlil Gibran
Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, we fell them down and turn them into paper, that we may record our emptiness. ― Kahlil Gibran
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. ― Kahlil Gibran
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. ― Kahlil Gibran
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. ― Kahlil Gibran
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. ― Kahlil Gibran
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. ― Kahlil Gibran
What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you? ― Kahlil Gibran
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master. ― Kahlil Gibran
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. ― Kahlil Gibran
I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us. ― Kahlil Gibran
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. ― Kahlil Gibran
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. ― Kahlil Gibran
We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side. ― Kahlil Gibran
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. ― Kahlil Gibran
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. ― Kahlil Gibran
Would that I was 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. ― Kahlil Gibran
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. ― Kahlil Gibran
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. ― Kahlil Gibran
No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone. ― Kahlil Gibran
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. ― Kahlil Gibran
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. ― Kahlil Gibran
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? ― Kahlil Gibran
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. ― Kahlil Gibran
Most Inspiring Kahlil Gibran Quotes
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know myself, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and it’s very atoms. ― Kahlil Gibran
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. ― Kahlil Gibran
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. ― Kahlil Gibran
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. ― Kahlil Gibran
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ― Kahlil Gibran
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. ― Kahlil Gibran
When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies. ― Kahlil Gibran
They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve. ― Kahlil Gibran
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. ― Kahlil Gibran
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers. ― Kahlil Gibran
You have your ideology and I have mine. ― Kahlil Gibran
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.― Kahlil Gibran
Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’― Kahlil Gibran
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love. ― Kahlil 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. ― Kahlil Gibran
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking. ― Kahlil Gibran
The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God. ― Kahlil Gibran
Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert. ― Kahlil Gibran
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. ― Kahlil Gibran
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold. ― Kahlil Gibran
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. ― Kahlil Gibran
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. ― Kahlil Gibran
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. ― Kahlil Gibran
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert. ― Kahlil Gibran
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. ― Kahlil Gibran
All that spirits desire, spirits attain. ― Kahlil Gibran
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper. ― Kahlil Gibran
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. ― Kahlil Gibran
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds. ― Kahlil Gibran
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is. ― Kahlil Gibran
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. ― Kahlil Gibran― Kahlil Gibran
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. ― Kahlil Gibran
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember. ― Kahlil Gibran
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. ― Kahlil Gibran
Love is trembling happiness. ― Kahlil Gibran
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. ― Kahlil Gibran
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. ― Kahlil Gibran
Meaningful Quotes By Khalil Gibran
Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be. ― Kahlil Gibran
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. ― Kahlil Gibran
Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms. ― Kahlil Gibran
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. ― Kahlil Gibran
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. ― Kahlil Gibran
Your friend is your needs answered. ― Kahlil Gibran
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice. ― Kahlil Gibran
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. ― Kahlil Gibran
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. ― Kahlil Gibran
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. ― Kahlil Gibran
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. ― Kahlil Gibran
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? ― Kahlil Gibran
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, then lord among those without dreams and desires. ― Kahlil Gibran
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. ― Kahlil Gibran
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. ― Kahlil Gibran
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. ― Kahlil Gibran
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. ― Kahlil Gibran
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. ― Kahlil Gibran
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. ― Kahlil Gibran
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. ― Kahlil Gibran
Sadness is but a wall between two garden. ― Kahlil Gibran
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. ― Kahlil Gibran
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. ― Kahlil Gibran
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. ― Kahlil Gibran
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. ― Kahlil Gibran
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom? ― Kahlil Gibran
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. ― Kahlil Gibran
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ― Kahlil Gibran
Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream. ― Kahlil Gibran
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. ― Kahlil Gibran
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. ― Kahlil Gibran
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. ― Kahlil Gibran
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. ― Kahlil Gibran
