Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills? – Khalil Gibran
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison? – Khalil Gibran
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. – Khalil Gibran
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. – Khalil Gibran
Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms. – Khalil Gibran
When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. – Khalil Gibran
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers. – Khalil Gibran
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. – Khalil Gibran
But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. – Khalil Gibran
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. – Khalil Gibran
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love. – Khalil Gibran
Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be. – Khalil Gibran
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice. – Khalil Gibran
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. – Khalil Gibran
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. – Khalil Gibran
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all. – Khalil Gibran
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds. – Khalil Gibran
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms. – Khalil Gibran
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. – Khalil Gibran
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. – Khalil Gibran
