Kahlil Gibran Quotes - Page 2

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.

Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.

The Reality of The Other Person Lies Not In What He Reveals To You, But What He Cannot Reveal To You.
Therefore, If You Would Understand Him, Listen Not To What He Says, But Rather To What He Does Not Say.

Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself...
You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

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

If you reveal your secrets to the wind,
you should not blame the wind for
revealing them to the trees.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.
The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.

For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended,
is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

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

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

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Ihr redet, wenn ihr aufhört mit euren Gedanken in Frieden zu sein.

Die Einsicht eines Menschen verleiht ihre Flügel keinem anderen.

Wenn [der Lehrer] wirklich weise ist, fordert er euch nicht auf, ins Haus seiner Weisheit einzutreten, sondern führt euch an die Schwelle eures eigenen Geistes.

ولمّا فتحت قلبي لكي ارى السعادة, وجدت مرآتها وسريرها وملابسها, لكنّي لم اجدها.