Kahlil Gibran

Quote link. Other quotes about: never fear perfect: "Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood."
Quote link.: "All that spirits desire, spirits attain."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world man beauty good: "A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror."
Quote link. Other quotes about: world war: "A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art find man nature: "Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes."
Quote link.: "Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."
Quote link. Other quotes about: friend friends: "As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease."
Quote link. Other quotes about: greed happy god: "Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love: "Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people: "Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people."
Quote link. Other quotes about: brother pain: "Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first man life: "During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has really been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much."
Quote link. Other quotes about: seed grow: "Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never grow: "Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love: "Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
Quote link.: "Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god devil: "Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth: "Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never: "Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity."
Quote link. Other quotes about: need: "Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."
Quote link. Other quotes about: need: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man life soul: "God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: believe truth man: "God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them."
Quote link.: "Half of what I say is meaningless but I say it so that the other half may reach you."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love: "Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never look: "He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never: "He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it."
Quote link. Other quotes about: history mind: "History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history."
Quote link. Other quotes about: sin rich wish: "I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time: "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."
Quote link.: "If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully."
Quote link. Other quotes about: death: "If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved."
Quote link. Other quotes about: soul: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men rich: "If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work love: "If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work."
Quote link.: "If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."
Quote link. Other quotes about: talk silence teach: "I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."
Quote link. Other quotes about: religion 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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth people good evil fear: "In battling evil, excess is good for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath."
Quote link.: "In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans."
Quote link. Other quotes about: soul: "In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song."
Quote link. Other quotes about: dreams: "I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires."
Quote link. Other quotes about: understand: "It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding."
Quote link. Other quotes about: understand: "It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding."
Quote link. Other quotes about: wrong think love: "It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations."
Quote link. Other quotes about: ignorance art silence: "I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."
Quote link. Other quotes about: philosophy children wisdom child: "Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."
Quote link. Other quotes about: seed: "Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds."
Quote link. Other quotes about: mother: "Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms."
Quote link.: "Let there be spaces in your togetherness."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live: "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."
Quote link.: "Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."
Quote link. Other quotes about: love: "Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."
Quote link. Other quotes about: day run sin: "Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving."
Quote link. Other quotes about: never discover: "Man merely discovers' he never can and never will invent."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth: "Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life peace: "Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art friend religion belief friends walk rule: "My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man dreams: "No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver."
Quote link. Other quotes about: power human live: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: first truth life beauty: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god seed answer law soul: "Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God."
Quote link.: "Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others."
Quote link. Other quotes about: nothing sun wisdom: "Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain."
Quote link.: "Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge."
Quote link. Other quotes about: pain: "Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary."
Quote link.: "Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lies: "Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth: "Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert."
Quote link.: "Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."
Quote link. Other quotes about: right human: "Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth: "Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'"
Quote link. Other quotes about: strength man: "Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution."
Quote link. Other quotes about: men: "The best of men is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth god live man sun law: "The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun."
Quote link. Other quotes about: deep: "The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."
Quote link. Other quotes about: human world: "The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is."
Quote link. Other quotes about: need: "The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die men light person: "The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality."
Quote link.: "The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation."
Quote link.: "The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god person: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: understand person lies: "The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say."
Quote link.: "The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers."
Quote link. Other quotes about: time life today: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: man religion: "The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion."
Quote link.: "They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve."
Quote link. Other quotes about: change: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: live life look: "To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice."
Quote link. Other quotes about: god people: "To be closer to God, be closer to people."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people life: "To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life."
Quote link. Other quotes about: understand person mind look: "To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life: "Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts."
Quote link. Other quotes about: experience: "We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
Quote link. Other quotes about: death dreams fear: "We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams."
Quote link. Other quotes about: heaven: "We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble."
Quote link. Other quotes about: rest fear soul: "What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you"
Quote link.: "What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters"
Quote link. Other quotes about: world: "What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt"
Quote link.: "When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth look: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: death life: "When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life."
Quote link. Other quotes about: earth work truth life love born: "When you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret."
Quote link. Other quotes about: find reason man: "Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges"
Quote link. Other quotes about: power: "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"
Quote link.: "Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work love: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people: "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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: today: "Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."
Quote link. Other quotes about: truth beauty today love: "Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
Quote link. Other quotes about: living children child: "You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."
Quote link. Other quotes about: little: "You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."
Quote link.: "You progress not through improving what has been done, but reaching toward what has yet to be done."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life dreams house children child soul: "Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... 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."
Quote link. Other quotes about: people: "Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt."
Quote link. Other quotes about: sun understand pain: "Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain."
Quote link. Other quotes about: sun: "You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun."
Quote link. Other quotes about: grow: "Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow."

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