Khalil Gibran Quotes

“Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.”

“Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge.”

“Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.”

“Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.”

“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”

“Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.”

“Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.”

“March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.”

“Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.”

“Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.”

“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.”

“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.”

“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

“If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?”

“The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.”

“If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.”

“Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.”

“I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.”

“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.”

“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.”

“Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.”

“Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.”

“Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.”

“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”

“To be able to look back upon one's life in satisfaction is to live twice.”