Explore Quotes by Khalil Gibran

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' Say not, ' I have found the path of the soul.' Say rather, 'I have met the soul walking upon my path.' For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

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

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

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.

joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. _x000D_ But it is night that raises them to the stars.

There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.

If I could take your troubles _x000D__x000D_I would toss them into the sea, _x000D__x000D_But all these things I'm finding _x000D__x000D_Are impossible for me. _x000D__x000D_I cannot build a mountain _x000D__x000D_Or catch a rainbow fair, _x000D__x000D_But let me be what I know best, _x000D__x000D_A friend that is always there.

Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse.

To be closer to god, be closer to people.

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.

Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness

To know the pain of too much tenderness