Kahlil Gibran quotes

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. (Kahlil Gibran)
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Kahlil Gibran
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Kahlil Gibran
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
Kahlil Gibran
Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
Kahlil Gibran
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to.
Kahlil Gibran
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Kahlil Gibran
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran
When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.
Kahlil Gibran
Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb? (Kahlil 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.
Kahlil Gibran
Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.
Kahlil Gibran
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Kahlil 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.
Kahlil Gibran
When life life does not find a singer to sing her heart, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
Kahlil Gibran
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Kahlil Gibran
And God said "Love Your Enemy." And I obeyed him and loved myself.
Kahlil Gibran
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Kahlil Gibran
You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.
Kahlil Gibran
Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery. (Kahlil Gibran)
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
Kahlil Gibran
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
Kahlil Gibran
Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.
Kahlil Gibran
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
Kahlil Gibran