All Khalil Gibran Quotes
- It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands. Cast
- For love is sufficient unto love. Funny
- When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God. God
- For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness. Deem
- For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life’s procession that marches in majesty and proud… Idle
- Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. Broken Heart
- Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven? Burned
- And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives? Hollowed
- Your house is your larger body. Body
- For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose windows are the… Abides
- For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind. Breath
- And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree. Knowledge
- you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing? Command
- And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own… Ashes
- Much of your pain is self-chosen. Adversity
- Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. Days
- For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man. Another Man
- And that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space. Bounds
- For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether? Ether
- Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast It shall not be a glistening film that covers a wound, but an eyelid that… Anchor
- That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined. Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened… Bewildered
- For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease… Begin
- It was in my heart to help a little because I was helped much. Heart
- Behind the veil of each night, there is a smilling dawn. Behind
- You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart… Cease