Top 774 Quotes & Sayings by Khalil Gibran - Page 4

What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.

Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.

Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.

In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a shining dawn.

I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.

A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.

Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.

When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.

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

All things in this creation exist within you and all things in you exist in creation; there is no border between you and the closest things, and there is no distance between you and the farthest things, and all things, from the lowest to the loftiest, from the smallest to the greatest, are within you as equal things.

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.

Learn the words of wisdom uttered by the wise and apply them in your own life. Live them - but do not a make a show of reciting them, for he who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass loaded with books.

Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings.

The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.

Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.

Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason that are within you. Keep a watchful eye over yourself as if you were your own enemy; for you cannot learn to govern yourself, unless you first learn to govern your own passions and obey the dictates of your conscience.

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. Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater." But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy.

Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.

The true wealth of a nation lies not in it's gold or silver but in it's learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its sons.

Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?'

Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.

Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.

If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more,we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song. And if our hands should meet in another dream we shall build another tower in the sky.

Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.

The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. But it is night that raises them to the stars.

Our pain carves out a larger space for love to fill.

Love is a sacred mystery. To those who love, it remains forever wordless; But to those who do not love, it may be but a heartless jest.

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.

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

To belittle, you have to be little.

Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons

Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.

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 chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free!

Rest in reason. Move in Passion.

No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.

Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.

Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.

Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.

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.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.

Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for the sake of the Truth? It is our inner selves that hurt us when we disobey it, and it kills us when we betray it.

For this I bless you most. You give much and know not that you give at all.

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.

Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

A root is a flower that disdains fame.

I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop.

Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born

A truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.

You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth. It is the union of two souls in a strong love for the abolishment of separateness. It is that higher unity which fuses the separate unities within the two spirits. It is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance, and whose ending is Eternity. It is the pure rain that falls from an unblemished sky to fructify and bless the fields of divine Nature.

Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.

The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up the paths of mankind. For in one soul are contained the hopes and feelings of all Mankind.

Only love and death will change all things.

We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.