Kahlil Gibran quotes :
- I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, Iam ungrateful to these teachers.
- Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
- Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
- An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
- And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
- Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
- Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
- Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity
- Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
- If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
- If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
- 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.
- Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
- Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
- Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
- Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
- Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
- There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
- What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
- Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
- Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and take alms of those who work with joy.
- Your daily life is your temple. When you enter into it take with you your all.
- Your friend is your needs answered.
