Khalil Gibran Quotes

657 quotes in 5403 categories

• Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.
• Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.
• When you have grasped a problem clearly, face it with resolution, for that is the way of the strong.
• 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,…
• Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through me? A seeker…
• There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence of a virgin's spirit into…
• Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities,…
• A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks; but the face which,…
• The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
• You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.
• Passionate love is a quenchless thirst....
• Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman....
• The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of…
• The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach…
• When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
• Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill…
• In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of…
• Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.
• You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men…
• And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also. For what…

Browse Khalil Gibran Quotes by Category