Kahlil Gibran

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention."

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but not make a bond of love: Let it be rather a moving sea between the shores of your souls."

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Ever has it been that friendship knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity, and you are the mirror."

- Kahlil Gibran

"I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy."

- Kahlil 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."

- Kahlil Gibran

"And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb."

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."

- Kahlil Gibran

"But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you?"

- Kahlil Gibran

"Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun."

- Kahlil Gibran

"We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Yesterday is but today’s memory, tomorrow is today’s dream."

- Kahlil Gibran

"A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand."

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"And think not that you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and tumult of a thousand men."

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Work is love made visible."

- Kahlil 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."

- Kahlil Gibran

"We are all like the bright Moon; we still have our darker side."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Wake in the morning with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"Kindness is like snow—it beautifies everything it covers."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Kindness is like snow- It beautifies everything it covers."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream."

- 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."

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"If [the teacher] is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; Yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth."

- Kahlil Gibran

"March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path."

- Kahlil 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 they are with you yet they belong not to you."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Let your home be your mast and not your anchor."

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"Marriage is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is Eternity."

- Kahlil Gibran

"You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore….but let there be spaces in your togetherness. And let the winds of the heavens dance between you."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Life is naked. A nude body is the truest and noblest symbol of life. If I draw a mountain as a heap of human forms and paint a waterfall in the shape of tumbling human bodies, it is because I see in the mountain a heap of living things, and in the waterfall a precipitate current of life."

- 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."

- Kahlil Gibran

"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you, for life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday."

- Kahlil Gibran

""Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.""

- Kahlil Gibran

"Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do."

- Kahlil Gibran

"The wolves prey upon the lambs in the darkness of the night, but the blood stains remain upon the stones in the valley until the dawn comes, and the sun reveals the crime to all."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness. For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He also loves the bow that is stable."

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know myself, to know it completely."

- Kahlil Gibran

"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind."

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"When you part from your friend, you grieve not; for that which you love most in them may be clearer in their absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future but from wanting to control it."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary."

- Kahlil Gibran

"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness."

- Kahlil Gibran

""Kindness is like snow—it beautifies everything it covers.""

- Kahlil Gibran

"If [the teacher] is indeed wise, he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind."

- Kahlil Gibran

"He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly."

- Kahlil Gibran

""Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you.""

- Kahlil Gibran

"The strongest souls have emerged out of suffering; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day, and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us."

- 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."

- Kahlil 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."

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."

- Kahlil Gibran

"March on fearlessly; life's journey is paved with growth."

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"One day you will ask me which is more important—my life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life."

- Kahlil Gibran

""Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.""

- Kahlil Gibran

"You often say; I would give, but only to the deserving, The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and nights is worthy of all else from you.And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream. See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, is but a witness."

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- 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."

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls."

- Kahlil Gibran

"When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has brought you delight."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit"

- Kahlil 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."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens"

- Kahlil Gibran

"Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky."

- Kahlil 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."

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Love is life sharing, not for hurt, Love is alive both not ambiguous."

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- 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."

- Kahlil Gibran

"You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Kahlil Gibran

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures."

- Kahlil 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."

- Kahlil Gibran