Top 774 Quotes & Sayings by Khalil Gibran - Page 3

Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist.

All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.

The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.

Behind the veil of each night, there is a smilling dawn.

Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.

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

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

You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.

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

When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.

How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.

Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress." And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without." At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty."

I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.

The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in 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.

Do not keep crying when your love has been gone. You only need Smile because he had been given you the opportunity to meet someone who is better.

The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.

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

If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.

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

A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.

Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.

I do not want you to hear that I LOVE you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say.

The snow and the storm destroy the flower; but its seed they cannot kill.

You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.

Miserable is the man who loves a woman and takes her for his wife, pouring at her feet the sweat of his skin and the blood of his body and the life of his heart, and placing her in the hands of the fruit of his toil and the revenue of his diligence; for when he slowly wakes up, he finds that the heart that he endeavored to buy is given away freely and in sincerity to another man for the enjoyment of its hidden secrets and deepest love.

The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

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

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

Love is timeless.... Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.

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

Darkness is dawn not yet born.

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.

Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things in the world; it does not disclose its desirability except to those who first feel the influence of falsehood. Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

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.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

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.

Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came to make the human heart a temple, and the soul an altar, and the mind a priest.

I love you, my brother, whoever you are - whether you worship in a church, kneel in your temple, or pray in your mosque. You and I are children of one faith, for the diverse paths of religion are fingers of the loving hand of the one supreme being, a hand extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, eager to receive all.

There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.

Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.

Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another ruler with trumpetings again. Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strong men are yet in the cradle. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.

Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.

Much of your pain is self-chosen.

Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.

But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips.

The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.

How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.

The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.

The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.

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

joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another.

Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.

I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.

In the depths of your hopes and desires, lies your silent knowledge of the beyond, and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who say every sort of wicked thing about me because I sacrificed their friendship to gain my own soul. I left the dark paths of their duplicity and turned my eyes toward the light where there is salvation, truth, and justice. They have exiled me now from their society, yet I am content. Mankind only exiles the one whose large spirit rebels against injustice and tyranny. He who does not prefer exile to servility is not free in the true and necessary sense of freedom.