If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Man is like the foam of the sea, that floats upon the surface of the water. When the wind blows, it vanishes,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
If any of you would bring judgment the unfaithful wife, let him also weight the heart of her husband in scales, and… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
My house says to me, "do not leave me, for here dwells your past." And the road says to me, "Come and… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch; it will suffer… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it.… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Give and Take... For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life And to the flower a bee is a… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them:… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
If winter should say, 'Spring is in my heart,' who would believe winter? — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
If we were to all sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Happiness is a myth we seek, If manifested surely irks; Like river speeding to the plain, On its arrival slows and murks.… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless? But if in you thought you must measure time into seasons,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heath of life?… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Each thing that exists remains forever, and that very existence of existence is proof of its eternity. But without that realization, which… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?' — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“That which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space” — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it, And the clay that fills your ears shall be… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
