Quotes of Khalil Gibran - somelinesforyou

“ In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. ”

- Khalil Gibran

“ You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts. ”

- Khalil Gibran

“ Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. ”

- Khalil Gibran

“ Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. ”

- Khalil 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. ”

- 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

“ A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? ”

- Khalil Gibran

“ Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. ”

- Khalil Gibran

“ Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. ”

- Khalil Gibran

“ There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. ”

- Khalil Gibran

“ Kindness is like snow – it beautifies everything it covers. ”

- Khalil Gibran

“ Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. ”

- Khalil Gibran

“ Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. ”

- Khalil Gibran

“ Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. ”

- Khalil Gibran

“ Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. ”

- Khalil Gibran

“ Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. ”

- Khalil Gibran

“ Ever has it been that loves knows not its own death until the hour of separation. ”

- 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

“ You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. ”

- Khalil Gibran

“ Ever has it been that loves knows not its own death until the hour of separation. ”

- Khalil Gibran

“ March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path. ”

- Khalil Gibran

“ The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. ”

- 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

“ For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. ”

- Khalil Gibran

“ I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. ”

- Khalil Gibran

“ 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. ”

- Khalil Gibran

“ And think not that you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. ”

- Khalil Gibran

“ The chemist who can extract from his heart’s elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love. ”

- 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
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