Kahlil Gibran Quotes - Page 6

As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Euer Freund ist die Antwort auf eure Nöte.

And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.

Eure Kinder sind nicht eure Kinder. - Sie sind die Söhne und Töchter der Sehnsucht des Lebens nach sich selber.

A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether.

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

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.

Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.

Art thou like me, child of my darkest heart? And dost thou think my untamed thoughts and speak my vast language?”

“Yea, we are twin brothers, O, Night; for thou revealest space and I reveal my soul.

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

Yesterday was a beautiful tune on the lips of life and today is a silent secret.

[W]enn ihr nicht mit Liebe, sondern nur mit Widerwillen arbeiten könnt, lasst besser eure Arbeit [...] und nehmt Almosen von denen, die mit Freude arbeiten.

Arbeit ist sichtbar gemachte Liebe.