Life Quotes by Kahlil Gibran

“These are the believers in life and the bounty of life, and their coffer is never empty.”

— Kahlil Gibran

“People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.”

— Kahlil Gibran

“The breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.”

— Kahlil Gibran

“Yesterday was a beautiful tune on the lips of life and today is a silent secret.”

— Kahlil Gibran

“Here love begins to render the prose of Life into hymns and canticles of praise”

— Kahlil Gibran

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

— Kahlil Gibran

“You have been told also that life is darkness, and in your weariness you echo what was said by the weary.”

— Kahlil Gibran

“But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that…

— Kahlil Gibrán

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment, the moment in which…

— Kahlil Gibran

The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life…

— Kahlil Gibran

Oftentimes we call Life bitter names, but only when we ourselves are bitter and dark. And we deem her empty and unprofitable,…

— Kahlil Gibran

“I have come to learn about things that intrigue people through their strangeness. But barley did I find myself in you presence…

— Kahlil Gibran

“Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing…

— Kahlil Gibran

Modern civilization has made woman a little wiser, but it has increased her suffering because of man's covetousness. The woman of yesterday…

— Kahlil Gibran

“People often say women want to be loved. But they really want much more. Many women want to bear children; and their…

— Kahlil Gibran

“Call me not wise unless you call all men wise. A young fruit am I, still clinging to the branch and it…

— Kahlil Gibran

“Some believe that art is the imitation of nature; in fact, nature is so sublime that it cannot be imitated. However noble…

— 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…

— Kahlil Gibran

“In that year I was reborn and unless a person is born again his life will remain like a blank sheet in…

— Kahlil Gibran

“And I say that life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, And all urge is blind save when there is…

— Kahlil Gibran

“Man will be on the path to perfection when he feels that he is one with space that knows no bounds and…

— Kahlil Gibran

“Oftentimes we call Life bitter names, but only when we ourselves are bitter and dark. And we deem her empty and unprofitable,…

— Kahlil Gibran

“Have mercy on me, my Soul. You have shown me Beauty, But then concealed her. You and Beauty live in the light;…

— 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…

— Kahlil Gibran

“I tell you as well as myself: what we see with our own eyes is nothing other than a cloud concealing what…

— Kahlil Gibran

“Once there lived in the ancient city of Afkar two learned men who hated and belittled each other's learning. For one of…

— Kahlil Gibran

All these things have you said of beauty. Yet in truth you spoke not of her but of needs unsatisfied, And beauty…

— Kahlil Gibran

“Where shall you seek beauty, and how shall you find her unless she herself be your way and your guide? And how…

— Kahlil Gibran

“When a man kills another man, the people say he is a murderer, but when the Emir kills him, the Emir is…

— Kahlil Gibran

“Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is…

— Kahlil Gibran

“Life is an island in an ocean of solitude and seclusion. Life is an island, rocks are its desires, trees its dreams,…

— Kahlil Gibran

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

— Kahlil Gibran

“You work that you may keep pace with the earth and the soul of the earth. For to be idle is to…

— Kahlil Gibran

“I have loved humanity, I have loved it so much. For me, there are three kinds of men; he who curses life,…

— Kahlil Gibran

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude…

— Kahlil Gibran

When you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping…

— Kahlil Gibran

We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings…

— Kahlil Gibran

The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remain hovering over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves. I am…

— Kahlil Gibran

Who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets,…

— Kahlil Gibran