Khalil Gibran Quotes

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you, and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.”

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

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

“Love possesses not nor would it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.”

“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

“Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.”

“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”

“Work is love made visible.”

“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”

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

“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”

“Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.”

“A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?”

“When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. 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.”

“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”

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

“Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.”

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

“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.”

“Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.”

“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.”

“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.”

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