He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good, you are only loitering and sluggard.” — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living… — 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
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth./The archer sees the mark upon the path of… — 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
Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path… — 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
When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself” — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Love is life sharing, not for hurt, Love is alive both not ambiguous. Love is whole life, not an affair. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep." Said the tube-rose to… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Let us disperse from our aloofness and serve the weak who made us strong, and cleanse the country in which we live.… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in… — 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
For a love to grow through the test of everyday living, one must respect that zone of privacy where one retires to… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Love is a sacred mystery. To those who love, it remains forever wordless; But to those who do not love, it may… — 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
If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share
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
Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?' — Khalil Gibran Copy Share
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
I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share
“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
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
“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
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share
joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share
Like the ocean is your god-self; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like the sun… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share
