Kahlil Gibran Quotes

1.Your friend is your needs answered.

2.Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

3.Let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

4.Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

5.Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

6.Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.

7.In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

8.Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.

9.Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

10.And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

11.Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

12.You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

13.Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.

14.Work is love made visible.

15.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.

16.A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

17.To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.

18.Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

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

20.Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.

21.Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; for love is sufficient unto love.

22.Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

23.Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

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

25.Think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

26.Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.

27.There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

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

29.Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

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

31.Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

32.The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

33.Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

34.Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

35.The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.