Khalil Gibran Quotes - Page 8

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it. Kahlil Gibran (Visions of the Prophet)

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

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

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Your saying 'I do not understand you' is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

When you have grasped a problem clearly, face it with resolution, for that is the way of the strong.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Love descends upon our souls by the will of God and not by the demand or the plea of the individual.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

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

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping, For only the hand of God can contain your hearts.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

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

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Love is life sharing, not for hurt, Love is alive both not ambiguous. Love is whole life, not an affair.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

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

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Poetry is not the opinion stated. It is a song that appears instead of a bloody wound or a smiling mouth.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

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

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

I use hate as a weapon to defend myself; had I been strong, I would never have needed that kind of weapon.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

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

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

The power to Love is God's greatest gift to man, For it never will be taken from the Blessed one who loves.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality

• Khalil Gibran / Poet

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