Kahlil Gibran
28 quotations
One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Your friend is your needs answered.
Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.