Kahlil Gibran Quotes - Page 3

Je tiefer sich das Leid in euer Sein eingräbt, desto mehr Freude könnt ihr fassen.

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

I am forever walking upon these shores,
Betwixt the sand and the foam,
The high tide will erase my food prints,
And the wind will blow away the foam,
But the sea and the shore will remain forever.

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Behind the veil of each night, there is a smiling dawn.

Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

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.

We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

You are my brother and I love you. I love you worshipping in your church, kneeling in your temple, and praying in your mosque. You and I and all are children of one religion, for the varied paths of religion are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being, extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, anxious to receive all.

I came here to be for all and with all,
and what I do today in my solitude
will be echoed tomorrow by the multitude.

What I say now with one heart
will be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts...

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth.

Der Lehrer [...] gibt nicht von seiner Weisheit, sondern eher von seinem Glauben und seiner Liebe.

Niemand kann euch etwas eröffnen, das nicht schon im Dämmern eures Wissens schlummert.

You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.