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