Quotes by

Khalil Gibran

Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth. – Khalil Gibran

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they dont, they never were. – Khalil Gibran

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Lifes longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. – Khalil Gibran

The just is close to the peoples heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God. – Khalil Gibran

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on lifes path. – Khalil Gibran

Yesterday is but todays memory, and tomorrow is todays dream. – Khalil Gibran

Of lifes two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborers hand. – Khalil Gibran

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. – Khalil Gibran

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. – Khalil Gibran

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. – Khalil Gibran

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper. – Khalil Gibran

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert. – Khalil Gibran

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. – Khalil Gibran

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end. – Khalil Gibran

Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration. – Khalil Gibran

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. – Khalil Gibran

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars. – Khalil Gibran

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. – Khalil Gibran

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. – Khalil Gibran

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul. – Khalil Gibran