Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.

- Khalil

We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.

- Khalil

Some find Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran’s poetry preachy and moralizing, but I find it plenty enlightening—it’s hard to object to the melodic, cosmic o…

- Khalil

I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.

- Khalil

I am the infinite sea, and all worlds are but grains of sand upon my shore.

- Khalil

Does the song of the sea end at the shore or in the hearts of those who listen to it?

- Khalil

Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you wort…

- Khalil

Power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end.

- Khalil

The seasons shall tire and the years grow old, ere they exhaust these words: “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.

- Khalil