Kahlil Gibran Quotes

“You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care, nor your nights without a want and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.”

“For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.”

“Art is a step in the known toward the unknown”

“Should you really open your eyes and see, you would behold your image in all images. And should you open your ears and listen, you would hear your own voice in all voices.”

“You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.”

“My friends: Music is the language of spirits. Its melody is like the frolicsome breeze that makes the strings quiver with love. When the gentle fingers of Music knock at the door of our feelings, they awaken memories that have long lain hidden in the depths of the Past. The sad strains of Music bring us mournful recollections; and her quiet strains bring us joyful memories. The sound of strings makes us weep at the departure of a dear one, or makes us smile at the peace God has bestowed upon us.”

“Everyone has experienced that truth: that love, like a running brook, is disregarded, taken for granted; but when the brook freezes over, then people begin to remember how it was when it ran, and they want it to run again.”

“When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.”

“From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection.”

“I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.”

“As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.”

“Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.”

“Life is but a sleep disturbed by dreaming, prompted by the will; the saddened soul with sadness hides it's secrets, and the gay, with thrill.”

“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.”

“History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.”

“If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.”

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.”

“In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.”

“You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time”

“Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness”

“When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.”

“The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.”

“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.”

“I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.”

“Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep."Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"”