The full name of Khalil Gibran is Gibran Khalil Gibran. He was a Lebanese-American writer, poet, and visual artist. Here we have shared Khalil Gibran quotes on love, life, marriage, death, children, friendship, learning, inspiration, and motivation.
Kahlil Gibran was born on January 6, 1883, in Bsharri, Lebanon, and died on April 10, 1931, Saint Vincent’s Catholic Medical Center, New York, United States.
Khalil Gibran quotes
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. – Khalil 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. – Khalil Gibran
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. – Khalil Gibran
Safeguarding the rights of others is the noblest and beautiful end of a human being. – Khalil Gibran
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. – Khalil Gibran
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. – Khalil Gibran
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. – Khalil Gibran
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. – Khalil Gibran
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path. – Khalil Gibran
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 your souls. – Khalil Gibran
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. – Khalil Gibran
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were. – Khalil Gibran
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. – Khalil Gibran
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires. – Khalil Gibran
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. – Khalil Gibran
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. – Khalil 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. – Khalil Gibran
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. – Khalil Gibran
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. – Khalil Gibran
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as, by the way, your mind looks at what happens. – Khalil Gibran
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. – Khalil Gibran
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 with joy. – Khalil Gibran
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you you’re all. – Khalil Gibran
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. – Khalil Gibran
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is. – Khalil Gibran
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. – Khalil Gibran
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. – Khalil Gibran
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. – Khalil Gibran
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. – Khalil Gibran
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. – Khalil Gibran
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. – Khalil Gibran
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. – Khalil Gibran
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. – Khalil Gibran
Many a doctrine is like a windowpane. We see truth through it but it divides us from the truth. – Khalil Gibran
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. – Khalil Gibran
When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies. – Khalil Gibran
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. – Khalil Gibran
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. – Khalil Gibran
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember. – Khalil Gibran
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation. – Khalil Gibran
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking. – Khalil Gibran
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers. – Khalil Gibran
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. – Khalil Gibran
Would that I was a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking. – Khalil Gibran
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. – Khalil Gibran
If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul. – Khalil Gibran
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master. – Khalil Gibran
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. – Khalil 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. – Khalil Gibran
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. – Khalil Gibran
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. – Khalil Gibran
Your friend is your needs answered. – Khalil Gibran
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. – Khalil Gibran
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. – Khalil Gibran
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert. – Khalil Gibran
Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’ – Khalil Gibran
Exaggeration is the truth that has lost its temper. – Khalil Gibran
Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert. – Khalil Gibran
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation? – Khalil Gibran
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. – Khalil Gibran
To be able to look back upon one’s life in satisfaction is to live twice. – Khalil Gibran
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. – Khalil Gibran
Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand. – Khalil Gibran
You have your ideology and I have mine. – Khalil Gibran
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt? – Khalil Gibran
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. – Khalil Gibran
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorant, and affection to be art. – Khalil Gibran
If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song. – Khalil Gibran
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. – Khalil Gibran
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. – Khalil Gibran
Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be. – Khalil Gibran
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds. – Khalil Gibran
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. – Khalil Gibran
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know myself, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms. – Khalil Gibran
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. – Khalil Gibran
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. – Khalil Gibran
Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them. – Khalil Gibran
The just is close to the people’s hearts, but the merciful is close to the heart of God. – Khalil Gibran
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love. – Khalil Gibran
Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms. – Khalil Gibran
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. – Khalil Gibran
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold. – Khalil Gibran
They consider me to have a sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve. – Khalil Gibran
What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you? – Khalil Gibran
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? – Khalil Gibran
All that spirits desire, spirits attain. – Khalil Gibran
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. – Khalil Gibran
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. – Khalil 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. – Khalil Gibran
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom. – Khalil Gibran
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do. – Khalil Gibran
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. – Khalil Gibran
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? – Khalil Gibran
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills? – Khalil Gibran
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever. – Khalil Gibran
When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. – Khalil Gibran
Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow. – Khalil Gibran
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. – Khalil Gibran
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