by Khalil Gibran was a Lebanese-American artist, poet and writer of the New York Pen League. In the Arab world, Gibran is considered a literary and political rebel. His romantic style was at the heart of a rebirth of modern Arabic literature especially in prose poetry breaking with the classical school.
Gibran is well known in the Western world for his 1923 book “The Prophet,” an early example of inspiring fiction that includes a series of philosophical essays written in English poetic poetry.
I have assembled this beautiful collection of the best quotes of Khalil Gibran .
Inspiring Khalil Gibran Quotes:
1.”I learned silence with the talkers, tolerance with the intolerant and kindness with the rude. Even as strange as it may seem, I am ungrateful to those teachers. ”
2.”Faith is knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.”
3.”God made the Truth with many doors to welcome all the believers who called them.”
4.”If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.”
5.”It is good to give when they ask for it, but it is better not to give the answer, through understanding.”
6.”One day you will ask me what is more important, if my life or yours. I will say that you and mine will leave without knowing that you are my life. ”
7.”Do not say, ‘I have found the truth’, but rather, ‘I have found a truth’.”
8.”The timeless that exists in you is aware of the timelessness of life.”
9.”We are all prisoners, but some of us are in cells with windows and others are not.”
10.”Your daily life is your temple and your religion. Every time you enter it, do it with your whole being. ”
11.”And do not forget that the earth delights to feel your feet barefoot and the winds crave play with your hair.”
12.”Because thought is a bird of space, which in a cage of words could unfold its wings, but not fly.”
13.”And in my madness I have found freedom and security; the freedom of loneliness and the security of not being understood, because those who understand us enslave part of our being. ”
14.”If you love someone, let them go because if they return, they were always yours. And if they do not, they never were. ”
15.”Life without love is like a tree without flowers or fruits.”
16.”From the suffering have emerged the strongest souls. The strongest characters are forged based on scars. ”
17.”The appearance of things changes according to our emotions; and so we see magic and beauty in them, while magic and beauty are really in ourselves. ”
18.”There are those who give with joy and that joy is their reward.”
19.”We, those who wandered always looking for the loneliest path, did not start a day where the other one concluded, and no dawn surprises us where the sunset left us. We travel even when the earth sleeps. We are the seeds of a tenacious plant and it is in our maturity and fullness of heart that we surrender to the wind to be disseminated. ”
20.”It has always been known that love does not know its own depth until the time of separation.”
21.”What is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?”
22.”If you really must be honest, be sincere and beautiful.”
23.”The flowers of the fields are the daughters of the love of the sun and the love of nature. And the children of men are flowers of love and compassion. ”
24.”Love does not give anything other than itself, it takes nothing but from itself. It does not possess or is possessed. Because love is enough for love.”
25.”Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.”
26.”The deeper the pain that sculpts his being, the more joy it can contain.”
27.”They consider me crazy because I do not want to sell my days for gold. And I consider them crazy because they believe that my days have a price. ”
28.”The true force that prevents the heart from being hurt is that which prevents it from growing with its inner greatness. The singing of the voice is melodious, but the singing of the heart is the pure voice of heaven. ”
29.”Every man loves two women: the one he has created in his imagination, and the one that has not yet been born.”
30.”What is dying, but surrendering naked to the wind and merging with the sun?”
31.”If the other person hurts you, you can forget the wound; but if you hurt her, you will always remember her. ”
32.”In a drop of water are all the secrets of all oceans, in one aspect of you are all aspects of all existence.”
33.”Many of us spend our whole lives running away from feelings with the mistaken belief that you can not stand the pain. But you have already endured the pain. What you have not done is to feel everything that you are beyond that pain. ”
34.”Progress does not consist in improving what is, but in advancing towards what will be.”
35.”The light of the stars that have been extinct for years still reaches us. Like the illustrious men who have died centuries ago, who reach us with the radiations of their personality ”
36.”To be able to look back on life with satisfaction is to live twice.”
37.”You can forget the one you’ve laughed with, but not the one you’ve cried with.”
38.”The exaggeration is the truth that he has lost his temper.”
39.”Generosity is in giving more than you can, and pride is in taking less than you need.”
40.”If you can not work with love but only with reluctance, it would be better for you to give up work and sit at the door of the temple to receive alms from those who work with joy.”
41.”In the sweetness of friendship, laughter and shared pleasures must float. Because in the dew of small things, the heart finds its dawn, its morning and refreshes. ”
42.”A man who can not tolerate the small defects of a woman, will never be able to enjoy her great virtues.”
43.”Sadness is no more than a wall between two gardens.”
44.”The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist looks at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. ”
45.”To understand a person’s heart and mind, do not look at what you have already achieved, but what you aspire to do.”
46.”Yesterday is no more than memory today, tomorrow is today’s dream.”
47.”Working with love is building a house with love, as if your loved one were to live in that house.”
48.”The nightingale refuses to nest in the cage, so that slavery is not the destiny of its offspring.”
49.”Man has received from God the power to wait, and to wait firmly until the object of his hope takes from his eyes the veil of oblivion.”
50.”My friend … I’m not what I look like. My outward appearance is nothing but a suit that I am wearing; a carefully made suit, which protects me from your questions, and from you, from my negligence. The ‘I’ in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and there it will remain forever, unnoticed, secret. ”
51.”Tears are fire that purifies love, making them clear and beautiful for an eternity.”
52.”Your life is determined not by what life brings you, but by the attitude you bring to life. It’s not what happens to you, it’s the way your mind looks at what happens. ”
53.”Of the two main prizes of life, beauty and truth, I found the first inside a loving heart and the second in the hand of a worker.”
54.”Trust in dreams, because in them the door to eternity is hidden.”
55.”When you are happy, look deep into your heart and you will find that it is only that which has given you sadness that is giving you joy. When you are sad, look again at your heart, and you will see that you are truly crying for what has been your delight. ”
56.”You give little when you give your possessions. It’s when you give of yourself when you really give. ”
57.”You do not progress by improving what is already done, but by striving to achieve what remains to be done.”
58.”The gifts that come from justice are superior to those that originate in charity.”
59.”Let there be no purpose in friendship but in deepening the spirit.”
60.”Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to cry, too serious to laugh, and too selfish to look for other than itself.”
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