Kahlil Gibran Quotes

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

By Kahlil Gibran

Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.

By Kahlil Gibran

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

By Kahlil Gibran

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

By Kahlil Gibran

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.

By Kahlil Gibran

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

By Kahlil Gibran

To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life.

By Kahlil Gibran

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

By Kahlil Gibran

To be closer to God, be closer to people.

By Kahlil Gibran

Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

By Kahlil Gibran

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration

By Kahlil Gibran

They deem me mad for I will not sell my days for gold; I deem them mad for they think my days have a price.

By Kahlil Gibran

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

By Kahlil Gibran

The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion.

By Kahlil Gibran

The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

By Kahlil Gibran

The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.

By Kahlil Gibran

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

By Kahlil Gibran

The reality of the other person lies 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.

By Kahlil Gibran

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

By Kahlil Gibran

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

By Kahlil Gibran

The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.

By Kahlil Gibran

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

By Kahlil Gibran

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

By Kahlil Gibran

The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.

By Kahlil Gibran

The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.

By Kahlil Gibran

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

By Kahlil Gibran

The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.

By Kahlil Gibran

The best of men is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

By Kahlil Gibran

That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined.

By Kahlil Gibran

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

By Kahlil Gibran