Khalil Gibran Quotes

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.

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

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Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

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To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

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

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Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.

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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.

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All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

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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.

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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.

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

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Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

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

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A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

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Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

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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.

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And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness. Freedom of loneliness and safety from being understood. For those who understand us enslave something in us.

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Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

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If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

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Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

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Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

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What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you

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

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But 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.

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