Explore Quotes by Khalil Gibran

Make me, oh God, the prey of the Lion, ere you make the rabbit my prey

Love that is cleansed by tears will remain eternally pure and beautiful.

When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay. And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart; For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed. When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

Like sheaves of corn it gathers you unto itself. It threshes you to make you naked. It sifts you to free you from your husks. It grinds you to whiteness. It kneads you until you are pliant. And then it assigns you to its sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast. All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's Heart.

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights._x000D__x000D_But your ears thirst for the sound of the heart's knowledge. _x000D__x000D_You would know in words that which you have always known in thought. _x000D__x000D_You would touch with your fingers the naked body of the dreams.

Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.

God made the world with a heart full of love,_x000D__x000D_Then He looked down from Heaven above,_x000D__x000D_And saw that we all need a helping hand,_x000D__x000D_Someone to share with, who'll understand._x000D__x000D_He made special people to see us through_x000D__x000D_The glad times and the sad times, too;_x000D__x000D_A person on whom we can always depend,_x000D__x000D_Someone we can call a friend._x000D__x000D_God made friends so we'll carry a part_x000D__x000D_Of His perfect love in all our hearts.

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping._x000D__x000D_For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts._x000D__x000D_And stand together yet not too near together:_x000D__x000D_For the pillars of the temple stand apart,_x000D__x000D_And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.

Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another.

You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God. But let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.

Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things in the world; it does not disclose its desirability except to those who first feel the influence of falsehood. Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Humanity looks upon Jesus the Nazarene as a poor-born Who suffered misery and humiliation with all of the weak. And He is pitied, for Humanity believes He was crucified painfully. . . . And all that Humanity offers to Him is crying and wailing and lamentation. For centuries Humanity has been worshiping weakness in the person of the Savior. The Nazarene was not weak! He was strong and is strong! But the people refuse to heed the true meaning of strength.

Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress." And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without." At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty."

Some think I wink at them when I shut my eyes to avoid their sight.

Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.

Like the seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.

Life without Freedom is like a body without a soul, and Freedom without Thought is like a confused spirit. . . . Life, Freedom and Thought are three-in-one, and are everlasting and shall never pass away.