Top & Most Famous Khalil Gibran Quotes
"I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy."
"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."
"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."
"The reality of the other person is 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."
"Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost."
"The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose."
"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
"They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price."
"A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul."
"Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness."
"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."
"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife."
"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."
"Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving."
"Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain."
"Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it."
"Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure. Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful."
"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."
"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."
"In the sweetness of friendship, let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures."
"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."
"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
"Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you."
"Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love."
"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."
"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be."
"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."
"I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."
"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself."
"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."
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