Quotes By Khalil Gibran

1. Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
2. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
3. Faith is knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
4. If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
5. Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
6. Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
7. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
8. The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
9. Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
10. Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
11. I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Quotes by Khalil Gibran III

1. 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.
2. The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
3. You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.
4. We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.
5. To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
6. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are the eternity and you are the mirror.
7. One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
8. And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
9. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
10. Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
11. To belittle, you have to be little.

Quotes by Khalil Gibran - II

Every man loves two women; the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born.

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

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

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.

The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.

Quotes by Khalil Gibran

1. If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.
2. Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
3. I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.
4. Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
5. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
6. Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.
7. Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
8. 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.
9. One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
10. Joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
11. Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.