Explore Quotes by Khalil Gibran

When a man's hand touches the hand of a woman, they both touch the heart of eternity.

Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.

The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.

The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.

The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.

Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.

You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.

Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.

The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.

My Lebanon is a flock of birds fluttering in the early morning as shepherds lead their sheep into the meadow & rising in the evening as farmers return from their fields and vineyards.You have your Lebanon and its people. I have my Lebanon and its people.

Should you really open your eyes and see, you would behold your image in all images. And should you open your ears and listen, you would hear your own voice in all voices.

And alone and without his nest shall the Eagle fly across the sun.

Art is a step in the known toward the unknown

All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.

And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life.

Cover me with soft earth, and let each handful be mixed With seeds ofjasmine, lilies, and myrtle; and when they Grow above me and thrive on my body's element they will Breathe the fragrance of my heart into space.

He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.

And you receivers - and you are all receivers - assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives. Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings; For to be overmindful of your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has the free hearted earth for mother, and God for father.

The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.