Kahlil Gibran Quotes

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

By Kahlil Gibran

It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.

By Kahlil Gibran

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.

By Kahlil Gibran

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

By Kahlil Gibran

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.

By Kahlil Gibran

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

By Kahlil Gibran

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.

By Kahlil Gibran

In battling evil, excess is good for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath.

By Kahlil Gibran

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

By Kahlil Gibran

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

By Kahlil Gibran

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

By Kahlil Gibran

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

By Kahlil Gibran

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

By Kahlil Gibran

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.

By Kahlil Gibran

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him, you will always remember

By Kahlil Gibran

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

By Kahlil Gibran

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

By Kahlil Gibran

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

By Kahlil Gibran

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

By Kahlil Gibran

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

By Kahlil Gibran

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

By Kahlil Gibran

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

By Kahlil Gibran

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

By Kahlil Gibran

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

By Kahlil Gibran

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes

By Kahlil Gibran

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

By Kahlil Gibran

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

By Kahlil Gibran

He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it.

By Kahlil Gibran

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.

By Kahlil Gibran

Half of what I say is meaningless but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

By Kahlil Gibran