If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. – Khalil Gibran
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. – Khalil Gibran
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. – Khalil Gibran
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. – Khalil Gibran
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. – Khalil Gibran
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. – Khalil Gibran
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of the oceans. – Khalil Gibran
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. – Khalil Gibran
The highest virtue here may be least in another world. – Khalil Gibran
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price. – Khalil Gibran
Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. – Khalil Gibran
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do. – Khalil Gibran
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. – Khalil Gibran
If it were not for guests all houses would be graves. – Khalil Gibran
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. – Khalil Gibran
An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper. – Khalil Gibran
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. – Khalil Gibran
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. – Khalil Gibran
Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains. – Khalil Gibran
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. – Khalil Gibran
