Quotes by Kahlil Gibran

“Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.These things move within...”

“A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.”

“A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings.”

“Who can separate his faith from his actions or his belief from his occupations?”

“Yes there is a Nirvanah: it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture and in putting your child to sleep and in writing the last line of your poem.”

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.”

“Yes there is a Nirvanah it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture and in putting your child to sleep and in writing the last line of your poem.”

“If the other person injures you you may forget the injury but if you injure him you will always remember.”

“Reason ruling alone is a force confining and passion unattended is a flame that burns to its own destruction.”

“The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.”

“In much of your talking thinking is half murdered.”

“The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion respect longing patience regret surprise and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.”