Kahlil Gibran

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

Subjects Kahlil Gibran spoke about

Adversity Advice Beauty Dance and Dancing Desire Doubt Exaggeration Faith Friends and Friendship Fun Generosity Knowledge Love Mind Nature Pain Silence Simplicity Teachers and Teaching The future