Khalil Gibran Quotes

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

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, th...

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of li...

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better tha...

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to lif...

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

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

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger amon...

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

The Teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads yo...

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

Love is trembling happiness.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and the...

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despi...

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

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path...

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which ...

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those with...

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

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing ...

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. T...

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the fo...

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Lov...

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn...

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveile...

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have s...

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to...

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to k...

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your know...

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

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

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

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorn...

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

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

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

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unk...

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

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your h...

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.