Quotes by

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

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. – Khalil Gibran

Love is trembling happiness. – Khalil Gibran

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. – Khalil Gibran

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom. – Khalil Gibran

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. – Khalil Gibran

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. – Khalil Gibran

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. – Khalil Gibran

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. – Khalil Gibran

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking. – Khalil Gibran

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. – Khalil Gibran

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever. – Khalil Gibran

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. – Khalil Gibran

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. – Khalil Gibran

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold. – Khalil Gibran

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires. – Khalil Gibran

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. – Khalil Gibran

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. – Khalil Gibran

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. – Khalil Gibran

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. – Khalil Gibran