Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Whoever would be a teacher of men let him begin by teaching himself before teaching others; and let him teach by example… — 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
The first thought of God was an angel. The first word of God was a man — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free. — 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
The soul is an embryo in the body of Man, and the day of death is the Day of awakening, for it… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Youth is a beautiful dream, on whose brightness books shed a blinding dust. Will ever the day come when the wise link… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure? — 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
Reason is not like the goods sold in the market places--the more plentiful they are, the less they are worth. Reason's worth… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
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 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
Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding? — 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
