KHALIL GIBRAN QUOTES

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. 
― Kahlil Gibran

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, 
never an opportunity.
-Khalil Gibran

When you love you should not think 
you can direct the course of love, 
for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. 
― Kahlil Gibran

Love descends upon our souls by the will of God 
and not by the demand or the plea of the individual. 
― Kahlil Gibran, Spirits Rebellious

He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering. 
― Kahlil Gibran, Visions of the Prophet

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself, 
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed: 
For love is sufficient unto love. 
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

It is wrong to think that love comes from 
long companionship and persevering courtship. 
Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity 
and unless that affinity is created in a moment, 
it will not be created for years or even generations. 
― Kahlil Gibran

It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, 
an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... 
but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. 
― Kahlil Gibran

You may forget with whom you laughed, 
but you will never forget with whom you wept. 
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

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. 
― Kahlil Gibran

Only love and death, are capable of changing everything. 
― Kahlil Gibran

You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. 
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore. 
You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. 
Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God. 
But let there be spaces in your togetherness. 
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. 
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: 
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. 
Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. 
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. 
Sing and dance together and be joyous, 
but let each one of you be alone, 
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. 
Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. 
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. 
And stand together yet not too near together: 
For the pillars of the temple stand apart, 
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Hearts united in pain and sorrow
will not be separated by joy and happiness.
Bonds that are woven in sadness
are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure.
Love that is washed by tears
will remain eternally pure and faithful. 
― Kahlil Gibran, Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran

When you are joyous, 
look deep into your heart and you shall find it 
is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
When you are sorrowful, 
look again in your heart, and you shall see that 
in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. 
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, 
but manifestations of strength and resolution. 
― Kahlil Gibran

If you love somebody, let them go, 
for if they return, they were always yours. 
And if they don't, they never were. 
- Khalil Gibran

My friend, I am not what I seem. 
Seeming is but a garment I wear — 
a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings 
and thee from my negligence. 
The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, 
and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable. 
― Kahlil Gibran, The Madman

The feelings we live through
in love and in loneliness
are simply, for us,
what high tide
and low tide are to the sea. 
― Kahlil Gibran, Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran

If the other person injures you, 
you may forget the injury; 
but if you injure him you will always remember 
― Kahlil Gibran

Between what is said and not meant, 
and what is meant and not said, 
most of love is lost. 
― Kahlil Gibran

One day you will ask me which is more important? 
My life or yours?
 I will say mine and you will walk away 
not knowing that you are my life. 
― Kahlil Gibran

Men who do not forgive women their little faults 
will never enjoy their great virtues. 
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror. 
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

To understand the heart and mind of a person, 
look not at what he has already achieved, 
but at what he aspires to. 
― Kahlil Gibran, The Madman

You are far, far greater than you know - 
and all is well. 
― Kahlil Gibran

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. 
When you enter into it take with you your all. 
― Kahlil Gibran

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, 
and sharing of pleasures. 
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Listen to the women when she looks at you, 
not when she talks to you. 
― Kahlil Gibran

That deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship 
began the first time I saw you,and it is the same now - 
only a thousand times deeper and tenderer. 
I shall love you to eternity. 
I loved you long before we met in this flesh. 
I knew that when I first saw you. 
It was destiny. 
We are together like this and nothing can shake us apart.
― Kahlil Gibran

Trust in dreams, 
for in them is the hidden gate to eternity. 
― Kahlil Gibran

When you reach the end of what you should know, 
you will be at the beginning of what you should sense. 
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

It is well to give when asked, 
but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; 
and to the open-handed the search for 
one who shall receive is joy greater than giving. 
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

And God said Love Your Enemy, 
and I obeyed him and loved myself.
― Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us 
to be content in our everyday life 
and share with the people the same happiness. 
― Kahlil Gibran

Life unfolds itself in mysteries ways. 
― Kahlil Gibran

God has created several doors which open onto truth. 
He opens them to all those who knock on them with the hand of faith.  
― Kahlil Gibran

Your children are not your children. 
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. 
They come through you but not from you, 
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. 
You may give them your love but not your thoughts, 
For they have their own thoughts. 
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 may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. 
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. 
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. 
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, 
and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. 
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness; 
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, 
so He loves also the bow that is stable. 
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

There are those who give with joy, 
and that joy is their reward. 
― Kahlil Gibran

A man's true wealth is 
the good he does in the world. 
― Kahlil Gibran

But you who walk facing the sun, 
what images drawn on the earth can hold you? 
― Kahlil Gibran

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... 
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet and Other Writings

I abstain from the people who consider 
insolence bravery and tenderness cowardice. 
And I abstain from those who consider 
chatter wisdom and silence ignorance. 
― Kahlil Gibran, Mirrors of the Soul

Love gives nothing but itself, 
and takes nothing but from itself. 
Love does not possess, nor would it be possessed. 
And do not think that you can direct the course of love, for love, 
if it finds you worthy, directs your course. 
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. 
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Your friend is your needs answered. 
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

There is a desire deep within the soul 
which drives man from the seen to the unseen, 
to philosophy and to the divine. 
― Kahlil Gibran

What is it to work with love?
It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, 
even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth.
It is to build a house with affection, 
even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house.
It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, 
even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit.
Work is love made visible.
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
-Kahlil Gibran

Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister, and the woman-friend, I would have been sleeping among those who seek the tranquility of the world with their snoring.
-Khalil Gibran

The mother is everything-she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness. He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
-Khalil Gibran

The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.
-Khalil Gibran

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
-Khalil Gibran

Time is the cruelest teacher; first she gives the test, then teaches the lesson.
-Khalil Gibran


Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
-Khalil Gibran