Quotes by Khalil Gibran

“The Teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”

“If your heart is a volcano,how shall you expect flower to bloom?”

“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 yo...”

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

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.”

“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

“Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.”

“Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.”

“Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.”

“Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.”

“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 wi...”

“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.”

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars. ”

“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.”

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

“Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.”

“Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.”

“When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?”

“Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.”