Kahlil Gibran Quotes

“To barter and lose is better than not to go forth.”

“Even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.”

“All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.”

“Like the seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.”

“Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.”

“Miserable is the man who loves a woman and takes her for his wife, pouring at her feet the sweat of his skin and the blood of his body and the life of his heart, and placing her in the hands of the fruit of his toil and the revenue of his diligence; for when he slowly wakes up, he finds that the heart that he endeavored to buy is given away freely and in sincerity to another man for the enjoyment of its hidden secrets and deepest love.”

“Work is love made visible.”

“Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.”

“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.”

“Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.”

“Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.”

“And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.”

“Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.”

“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”

“We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.”

“The silence of the envious is too noisy.”

“Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.”

“Your saying 'I do not understand you' is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve.”

“And you receivers - and you are all receivers - assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives. Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings; For to be overmindful of your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has the free hearted earth for mother, and God for father.”

“For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart.”

“He alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.”

“He that tries to seize an opportunity after it has passed him by is like one who sees it approach but will not go to meet it.”

“All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.”

“You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.”

“Love is the gentle smile upon the lips of beauty.”