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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. 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 strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.

Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.

And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

God made the world with a heart full of love, Then He looked down from Heaven above, And saw that we all need a helping hand, Someone to share with, who'll understand. He made special people to see us through The glad times and the sad times, too; A person on whom we can always depend, Someone we can call a friend. God made friends so we'll carry a part Of His perfect love in all our hearts.

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

If I could take your troubles I would toss them into the sea, But all these things I'm finding Are impossible for me. I cannot build a mountain Or catch a rainbow fair, But let me be what I know best, A friend that is always there.

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

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

The silence of the envious is too noisy.

You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.

All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.

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

I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

Listen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.

If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.

In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.

All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.

The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.

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• Born: January 6, 1883
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Kahlil Gibran

Gibran Khalil Gibran (6 January 1883 – 10 April 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran , was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist.

• 1.1 The Madman (1918)
• 1.2 The Forerunner (1920)
• 1.3 The Prophet (1923)
• 1.4 Sand and Foam (1926)
• 1.5 Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
• 1.6 The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul (1994)
• 1.7 Your Thought and Mine
• 2 Misattributed
• 3 Quotes about Gibran
• 4 External links

Quotes [ edit ]

• Khalil in Spirits Rebellious (1908) "Khalil The Heretic" Part 3
• " I Believe In You (To The Americans Of Lebanese Origin) " in This Man from Lebanon: A Study of Kahlil Gibran (1945) by Barbara Young, p. 136
• Spiritual Sayings of Kahlil Gibran (1962) as translated by Anthony R. Ferris
• Spiritual Sayings of Kahlil Gibran
• A Handful of Sand on the Shore , as quoted in Alterquest: the Alternative Quest for Answers (2006) by Karen Fiala, p. 127
• A Handful of Sand on the Shore
• Kahlil Gibran, The Awakened Soul ISBN-10: 1864760818 (January 2001)
• As quoted in Become a Conscious Creator: A Return to Self-Empowerment (2007) by Lisa Ford, p. 44

The Madman (1918) [ edit ]

• Introduction
• Once there ruled in the distant city of Wirani a king who was both mighty and wise. And he was feared for his might and loved for his wisdom. Now, in the heart of that city was a well, whose water was cool and crystalline, from which all the inhabitants drank, even the king and his courtiers; for there was no other well. One night when all were asleep, a witch entered the city, and poured seven drops of strange liquid into the well, and said, “From this hour he who drinks this water shall become mad.” Next morning all the inhabitants, save the king and his lord chamberlain, drank from the well and became mad, even as the witch had foretold. And during that day the people in the narrow streets and in the market places did naught but whisper to one another, “The king is mad. Our king and his lord chamberlain have lost their reason. Surely we cannot be ruled by a mad king. We must dethrone him.” That evening the king ordered a golden goblet to be filled from the well. And when it was brought to him he drank deeply, and gave it to his lord chamberlain to drink. And there was great rejoicing in that distant city of Wirani, because its king and its lord chamberlain had regained their reason.

The Forerunner (1920) [ edit ]

• You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation. And I too am my own forerunner, for the long shadow stretching before me at sunrise shall gather under my feet at the noon hour. Yet another sunrise shall lay another shadow before me, and that also shall be gathered at another noon. Always have we been our own forerunners, and always shall we be. And all that we have gathered and shall gather shall be but seeds for fields yet unploughed. We are the fields and the ploughmen, the gatherers and the gathered.

The Prophet (1923) [ edit ]

• Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.
• Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have found the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.
• Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
• Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
• For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.

Sand and Foam (1926) [ edit ]

• This line was later paraphrased by John Lennon , in his song " Julia ", on The Beatles (1968): "Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it just to reach you, Julia."
• A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.
• The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in 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.
• My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
• When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
• A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.
• If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.
• Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; Yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.
• Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.
• Friendship is always a sweet responsibility , never an opportunity .
• There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea
• I would be the least among men with dreams and the desire to fulfill them, rather than the greatest with no dreams and no desires.

Jesus, The Son of Man (1928) [ edit ]

• James The Son Of Zebedee: On The Kingdoms Of The World
• Mary Magdalen: On Meeting Jesus For The First Time

• A Philosopher: On Wonder And Beauty

• Nicodemus The Poet, The Youngest Of The Elders In The Sanhedrim: On Fools And Jugglers

• Mary Magdalen: His Mouth Was Like the Heart of a Pomegranate

• Manasseh: On the Speech and Gesture of Jesus
• John The Beloved Disciple In His Old Age: On Jesus The Word

• Andrew: On Prostitutes
• John At Patmos: Jesus The Gracious

• Philip: And When He Died All Mankind Died

• Sarkis an old Greek Shepherd, called the madman: Jesus and Pan

• Mary Magdalen (Thirty years later): On the Resurrection of the Spirit
• A Man From Lebanon: Nineteen Centuries Afterward

The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul (1994) [ edit ]

• The Anthem of Humanity
• Children of Gods, Scions of Apes
• All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of souls who preceded you. The speech they weave is a link between you and your human siblings. The consequences that cause sorrow and rapture are the seeds that the past has sown in the field of the soul, and by which the future shall profit.
• My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love what the people abhor and to show good will toward the one they hate. It showed me that Love is a property not of the lover but of the beloved. Before my Soul taught me, Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs, but now it has been transformed into a halo; its first is its last, and its last is its first. It encompasses every being, slowly expanding to embrace all that ever will be.
• My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my thirst. But in this burning that is never extinguished is a joy that never wanes.
• My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to touch what has never taken corporeal form or crystallized. It made me understand that touching something is half the task of comprehending it, and that what we grasp therein is part of what we desire from it.

• My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me not to measure time by saying, "It was yesterday, and will be tomorrow." Before my Soul taught me, I imagined the past as an era not to be met with, and the future as an age that I would never witness. But now I know that in the brief moment of the present, all time exists, including everything that is in time — all that is eagerly anticipated, achieved, or realized. My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me not to define a place by saying 'here' or 'there'. Before my Soul taught me, I thought that when I was in any place on the earth I was remote from every other spot. But now I have learned that the place where I subsist is all places, and the space I occupy is all intervals.
• My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me never to delight in praise or to be distressed by reproach. Before my Soul taught me, I doubted the value of my accomplishments until the passing days sent someone who would extol or disparage them. But now I know that trees blossom in the spring and give their fruits in the summer without any desire for accolades. And they scatter their leaves abroad in the fall and denude themselves in the winter without fear of reproof.
• My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me and demonstrating to me that I am not exalted over the panhandler nor less than the mighty. Before my Soul taught me, I thought people consisted of two types: the weak, whom I pitied and disregarded, and the powerful, whom I followed or against I rebelled. Now, I have discovered that I was formed as one individual from the same substance from which all human beings were created. I am made up of the same elements as they are, and my pattern is theirs. My struggles are theirs, and my path is theirs.
• My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me that the lamp which I carry does not belong to me, and the song that I sing was not generated from within me. Even if I walk with light, I am not the light; and if I am a taut-stringed lute, I am not the lute player.

Your Thought and Mine [ edit ]

• My thought is a tender leaf that sways in every direction and finds pleasure in its swaying. Your thought is an ancient dogma that cannot change you nor can you change it. My thought is new, and it tests me and I test it morn and eve. You have your thought and I have mine.
• Your thought advocates fame and show. Mine counsels me and implores me to cast aside notoriety and treat it like a grain of sand cast upon the shore of eternity. Your thought instills in your heart arrogance and superiority. Mine plants within me love for peace and the desire for independence. Your thought begets dreams of palaces with furniture of sandalwood studded with jewels, and beds made of twisted silk threads. My thought speaks softly in my ears, " Be clean in body and spirit even if you have nowhere to lay your head. " Your thought makes you aspire to titles and offices. Mine exhorts me to humble service.
• Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is a basic law, we are all one before it. He who disdains the mean is himself mean. He who vaunts his scorn of the sinful vaunts his disdain of all humanity.
• Your thought advocates Judaism, Brahmanism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. In my thought there is only one universal religion, whose varied paths are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being . In your thought there are the rich, the poor, and the beggared. My thought holds that there are no riches but life; that we are all beggars, and no benefactor exists save life herself.
• Your thought sees power in armies, cannons, battleships, submarines, aeroplanes, and poison gas. But mine asserts that power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end. Your thought differentiates between pragmatist and idealist, between the part and the whole, between the mystic and materialist. Mine realizes that life is one and its weights, measures and tables do not coincide with your weights, measures and tables. He whom you suppose an idealist may be a practical man.

Misattributed [ edit ]

• Edwin Hubbell Chapin , as quoted in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert
• Paraphrasing of Gibran's quote "My enemy said to me, 'Love your enemy.' And I obeyed him and loved myself.", misattributed on these websites: GaiamLife (blog) & Quote Corner - Khalil Gibran quotes Part 1
• Not attributable to any source; popularized in August 2016

Quotes about Gibran [ edit ]

• Editorial synopsis on the back jacket of the Penguin edition of The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul (1994) as translated by Juan R. I. Cole
• Dr. Suheil Bashrui, editor of Kahlil Gibran: A Spiritual Treasury , as quoted in "Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) - A Voice of Consciousness" by Manbir Singh Chowdhary in SikhSpectrum.com Quarterly No.16 (May 2004)

External links [ edit ]

• Kahlil Gibran Tribute Site

• 1883 births
• 1931 deaths
• Poets from the United States
• Novelists from the United States
• Short story writers from the United States
• Painters from the United States
• Catholics from the United States
• Mystic poets
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• Poets from Lebanon

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99 Khalil Gibran Quotes on Love, Life, & ‘The Prophet’

In this post we’ll delve into the world of Khalil Gibran quotes who was a Lebanese-American poet, philosopher, and artist.

Khalil Gibran was born on January 6, 1883, in Bsharri, a town in the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire (present-day Lebanon). He came from a Maronite Christian family.

He and his family immigrated to the United States, and settled in Boston. He studied in Paris and returned to the U.S. to pursue a career as an artist and writer. He was a prolific artist and he also produced drawings and paintings.

His most famous work, “The Prophet,” is a collection of poetic essays that cover various aspects of life, including love , marriage, work, and freedom. The book became immensely popular and has been translated into numerous languages.

Let’s read some of the best Khalil Gibran quotes on love, life, friendship and ‘The Prophet’.

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Khalil Gibran Quotes

1. “One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.” 2. “And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.” 3. “If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.” 4. “The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.” 5. “Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.” 6. “Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.” 7. “We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.” 8. “You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.”

Khalil Gibran Quotes From ‘The Prophet’

1. “To belittle, you have to be little.” 2. “For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?” 3. “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.” 4. “The earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” 5. “Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.” 6. “Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.” 7. “You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that 8ou truly give.” 9. “Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” 10. “No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.” 11. “Much of your pain is self-chosen.” 12. “Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.” 13. “Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.”

Khalil Gibran Quotes on Love

1. “If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.” 2. “When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.” 3. “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” 4. “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.” 5. “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.” 6. “It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.” 7. “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” 8. “Love is trembling happiness.” 9. “Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.” 10. “And God said “Love Your Enemy,” and I obeyed him and loved myself.” 11. “It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone… but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.”

Khalil Gibran Quotes on Life

1. “To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.” 2. “Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.” 3. “Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.” 4. “One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.” 5. “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.” 6. “Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.” 7. “Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.” 8. “You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care, nor your nights without a want and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.”

Khalil Gibran Quotes on Death

1. “For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.” 2. “If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.” 3. “Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.”

Khalil Gibran Quotes on Children

1. “You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.” 2. “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.” 3. “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.”

Khalil Gibran Quotes on Friendship

1. “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” 2. “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.” 3. “Your friend is your needs answered.” 4. “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?” 5. “Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.” 6. “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.”

Khalil Gibran Quotes on Wisdom

1. “If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?” 2. “Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.” 3. “A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.” “Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.” 4. “The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.” 5. “If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.” 6. “The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.” 7. “The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.” 8. “Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.” 9. “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.” 10. “They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.”

Khalil Gibran Quotes on Strength

1. “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” 2. “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” 3. “Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.” 4. “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.” 5. “There is a space between man’s imagination and man’s attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.”

Inspirational Khalil Gibran Quotes

1. “To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.” 2. “Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.” 3. “Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.” 4. “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.” 5. “I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.” 6. “Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.” 7. “The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.” 8. “All that spirits desire, spirits attain.”

Khalil Gibran Quotes on Kindness

1. “The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.” 2. “I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.” 3. “Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.” 4. “Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.” 5. “The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God. 6. “Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.” 7. “When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.”

Khalil Gibran Quotes on Truth

1. “Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.” 2. “Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’” 3. “Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.” 4. “Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.” 5. “We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.”

Khalil Gibran Quotes on Faith

1. “Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.” 2. “Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.” 3. “Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.” 4. “Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.”

Khalil Gibran Quotes on Happiness & Joy

1. “The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.” 2. “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 sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.” 3. “You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.” 4. “There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.” 5. “We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.” 6. “Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.” 7. “Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”

These Khalil Gibran quotes reflect his philosophical and spiritual insights that have resonated with readers around the world, transcending cultural and religious boundaries.

Khalil Gibran passed away on April 10, 1931, in New York City, at the age of 48. Despite his relatively short life, his literary and artistic contributions continue to be celebrated and appreciated.

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The 60 Best Kahlil Gibran Quotes

Kahlil Gibran is best known for his excellent book, The Prophet . And indeed, that is where most of these quotes were sourced.

Kahlil was a poet and a philosopher with a deep respect for all forms of Art. These quotes paint a vivid picture of life that touch on themes as varied as love, freedom, progress, and happiness.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were. Kahlil Gibran

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions. Kahlil Gibran

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts. Kahlil Gibran

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. Kahlil Gibran

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. Kahlil Gibran

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose. Kahlil Gibran

When love beckons to you follow him. Kahlil Gibran

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms. Kahlil Gibran

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? Kahlil Gibran

The timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream. Kahlil Gibran

You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept. Kahlil Gibran

Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. Kahlil Gibran

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember. Kahlil Gibran

It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. Kahlil Gibran

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. Kahlil Gibran

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. Kahlil Gibran

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. Kahlil Gibran

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. Kahlil Gibran

Love is trembling happiness. Kahlil Gibran

He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth. Kahlil Gibran

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. Kahlil Gibran

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. Kahlil Gibran

The appearance of things change according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves. Kahlil Gibran

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

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky. Kahlil Gibran

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Kahlil Gibran

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. Kahlil Gibran

Work is love made visible. Kahlil Gibran

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

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. Kahlil Gibran

We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Kahlil Gibran

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

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. Kahlil Gibran

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Kahlil Gibran

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. Kahlil Gibran

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. Kahlil Gibran

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. Kahlil Gibran

And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Kahlil Gibran

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. Kahlil Gibran

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. Kahlil Gibran

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. Kahlil Gibran

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. Kahlil Gibran

The timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream. Kahlil Gibran

All that spirits desire, spirits attain. Kahlil Gibran

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. Kahlil Gibran

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. Kahlil Gibran

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities. Kahlil Gibran

Your children are not your children. Kahlil Gibran

They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. Kahlil Gibran

They come through you but not from you, Kahlil Gibran

and though they are with you, and yet they belong not to you. Kahlil Gibran

You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. Kahlil Gibran

For they have their own thoughts. Kahlil Gibran

You may house their bodies but not their souls, Kahlil Gibran

for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. Kahlil Gibran

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. Kahlil Gibran

For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday. Kahlil Gibran

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20 of the Best Quotes of Khalil Gibran on Life, Death, Love and Friendship

Last Updated on March 2, 2024

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

Khalil Gibran was a magician with words. During his lifetime, the Lebanese writer and painter put some of the most moving phrases and short quotes to paper that still have the power to guide people emotionally to this day.

The following words will take you on a journey of the artist’s life, all the while uncovering some of his most cherished quotes on love, friendship, life and death .

“The  optimist sees the rose and not its thorns ; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.”  

He was a twentieth-century phenomenon with the ability to influence people’s lives with the mere suggestion of his words. His work, to which he devoted his entire life, made him the third most-sold poet of all time along with the likes of William Shakespeare and the Chinese poet Laozi.

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

Khalil Gibran’s fantastic ability to touch a person’s emotions earned him the name the midwife of the New Age because he helped so many people combat depression with witty and moving quotes and poems that have biblical undertones.

The volume of his 26 prose poems was translated into 50 languages and sold over nine million copies in the US alone. When his work was first released in the 1960s, it sold out within a week and continued to sell 5,000 copies per week thereafter.

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

The above words describe Khalil Gibran’s childhood to a certain extent. He did not have it easy growing up due to his family’s poverty. He was born into a Maronite Christian family in the town of Bsharri in Lebanon, which was then a semi-autonomous region of the Ottoman Empire.

His father was also called Khalil and his mother, Kamila. His hometown of Bsharri is located on the site of an ancient Phoenician settlement. During the Crusades, the city became known as Buissera.

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

Khalil Gibran’s younger years were defined by scraping by. He never enjoyed a formal education; his only knowledge gleaned from priests who instructed him about the Bible and gave him Arabic lessons. He had two younger sisters, Mariana and Sultana and an elder brother called Peter.

“If you  cannot work with love   but only with distaste, it is better that you should  leave your work .”  

His father, who was his mother’s third husband, initially worked as an apothecary. However, mounting gambling debts forced him to seek out alternative employment, ultimately resulting in Gibran’s father working for the local Ottoman-appointed representative.

They were turbulent times for the gradually weakening Ottoman Empire , and protests led to the eventual removal of the administrator and the arrest and imprisonment of Gibran’s for embezzlement. As a result, the family’s property was confiscated.

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

Gibran’s mother did not wait around––she had had enough. So, in 1895, she packed up her two daughters and two sons and moved to the United States, where they found a new home in Boston. The American city was known to have the largest Syrian-Lebanese community in the country.

In the meantime, Khalil Gibran’s father was released from prison. The news did not deter his mother who decided to stay in America where she started work as a seamstress and peddler of lace and linens.

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

When Khalil Gibran started school in 1885, his Boston teachers, very soon recognizing his talent, recommended him for a scholarship. He was also placed in a special class for immigrants to learn English. Moreover, it was during this period that he enrolled for art school.

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

It was then when he was introduced to the significant avant-garde Bostonian artist Fred Holland Day . The artist played an important role in conveying the first artistic impressions upon the teenager and would form an integral part of his later development.

However, Khalil Gibran, at the behest of his mother who wanted him to learn about his heritage, soon returned to Lebanon for four years in 1897 to study the Arabic language and literature at the Al-Hikma School. His homeward route to the USA again took him via Ellis Island and back to Boston.

“The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.”

His return to the USA was not a happy one. In the space of a year, his mother and two of his siblings, Sultana and Peter, died of tuberculosis and cancer in 1902 through to 1903. Gibran entered a deep, emotional and religious crisis. It was only thanks to his last remaining sister, Mariana, that he was able to support himself due to her working in a dress shop.

“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”

It was during this tragic period in his life that he dealt intensively with symbolist painting. He even went to Paris in 1908, where he studied painting and sculpture until 1912. During this time, the French sculptor Auguste Rodin, whose artistic work is closely linked to the emergence of modern sculpture, exerted considerable influence on him.

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.”  

With fresh inspiration, he promptly threw himself into his work, developing a symbolist and romantic style of painting that soon attracted the attention of Mary Elizabeth Haskell, who was a respected headmistress and ten years older than him. They met at one of his exhibitions presenting his drawings in Boston in the year 1904.

“And 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.”

She was the guiding light Khalil Gibran needed. The two of them formed an important friendship that lasted the rest of his life. Haskell truly believed in his talent and spent vast sums of money promoting his writing and painting.

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

However, the nature of their relationship remains a mystery with some people saying that they were lovers and others claiming that their union had never been consummated. They were engaged to be married for a while, but Khalil Gibran broke it off because he did not wish to marry while he still had affairs with other women. However, Haskell continued to support him financially even though she married another man herself.

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

After graduating from the Académie Julian in Paris, Gibran left Europe and returned to the USA, where he decided to settle in New York from 1912.

Throughout his life, however, he remained a passionate wanderer between the Old World and the New. His love of charity, for example, came to the fore during the famine in the Levant in 1916.

It was during this period that Khalil Gibran focused on his literary work that included mostly short stories, poems, and essays in both Arabic and English. The dominant themes are criticism of modern civilization, bourgeois society, and dogmatic clericalism.

“Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.”  

He argues for a mystical pantheism as well as for a profoundly religious spirit of modesty and the primitive. With his numerous works, Gibran became the innovator of Arabic literature and the founder of a symbolist school. To this day, he has an enthusiastic readership, and his poetic style finds imitators all over the world.

Some of Gibran’s central works in Arabic include “Rebellious spirits” (1908) and “Broken Wings” (1912). Later, after 1918, Khalil Gibran mainly wrote in English with “The Prophet” published in 1923 being his most influential work.

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

Khalil Gibran died on April 10, 1931 , in New York City aged only 48. The leading causes of death were tuberculosis and cirrhosis of the liver due to prolonged excessive alcohol consumption. It is said that after the publication of his famous work “The Prophet” that he descended into a spiral of self-destructive behavior. He locked himself away in his apartment from people and spent the entire day drinking.

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

His final wishes were to be buried in his native Lebanon. His sister and life-long friend, Mary Haskell purchased the Mar Sarkis Monastery, which has now become the Gibran Museum.

“A word I want to see written on my grave: I am alive like you, and I am standing beside you. Close your eyes and look around, you will see me in front of you,” are the words written next to Khalil Gibran’s grave.

After his death, his literary legacy experienced the first renaissance in the early 1970s and is now regarded as a significant contribution to the cultural exchange between the Orient and the Occident. Moreover, Khalil Gibran’s belief in universal love still lives among us to this day:

“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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Top 26 Most Inspiring Kahlil Gibran Quotes

Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese philosophical essayist, novelist, poet and artist. He is best known for his book The Prophet   — a collection of essays in prose as well as poetry, exploring the meaning of life and the condition of man. Illustrated with the author’s own drawings, it was first published in 1923 and has never been out of print.

As an artist, Gibran created hundreds of drawings and paintings and as an author he wrote in both English and Arabic. In the world of Arabic literature, Kahlil is considered a rebel for not complying with “the old ways”.

Gibran died at the age of 48 in New York City. Next to his grave stands this quote: “A word I want to see written on my grave: I am alive like you, and I am standing beside you. Close your eyes and look around, you will see me in front of you”.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

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

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

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

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.

It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone… but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

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

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

To belittle, you have to be little.

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

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

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

You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

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

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

• Kahlil Gibran

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90 Khalil Gibran Quotes on Love, Life and Inner Peace

• March 19, 2024
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Looking for some beautiful and inspiring quotes by Khalil Gibran? We have rounded up the top 100 Khalil Gibran quotes and sayings (with images and pictures)  that depict his deep views and thoughts regarding love, marriage, children, life – death, wisdom, dreams, success, and more.

Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) was a Lebanese artist, poet, and writer. Before 1918, most of Gibran’s writing had been in Arabic, but after he published ‘The Madman’ with Alfred A. Knopf in 1918, he began to publish in English.

Gibran subsequently published his best-known novel, “The Prophet” , a collection of twenty-six poetic essays.

Typically, Gibran’s writing focuses on Christianity and the theme of spiritual love. His book, The Prophet, is an early example of inspirational fiction including a series of philosophical essays.

Khalil Gibran is the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu.

Here is a classic collection of the most inspiring  Best Khalil Gibran quotations  about love, life, work, and marriage for you, which beautifully decodes life in its purest form.

Top 10 Khalil Gibran Quotes

• “Love is trembling happiness.” ― Kahil Gibran

• “We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.” ― Khalil Gibran

• “Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.” ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

Deep Khalil Gibran Quotes On Love

• “Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.” ― Khalil Gibran

• “Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons.” ― Khalil Gibran

• “One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.” ― Khalil Gibran

Best Quotes Of Khalil Gibran

• “Rest in reason. Move in Passion.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “Only love and death will change all things.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “All that spirits desire, spirits attain.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “Listen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers” ― Khalil Gibran

Quotes From Khalil Gibran’s Prophet

• “Much of your pain is self-chosen.” ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
• “For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.” ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
• “You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.” ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
• “And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.” ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
• “For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?” ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
• “Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
• “Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.” Say not, “I have found the path of the soul.” Say rather, “I have met the soul walking upon my path.” For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.” ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

Khalil Gibran Writings

• “Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.”― Khalil Gibran
• “We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.” ― Khalil Gibran, The Wanderer
• “Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.” ― Khalil Gibran

Famous Khalil Gibran Quotes On Life

By reflecting on these quotes, we can gain insights into our own lives and find the motivation to embrace the challenges and joys that life has to offer.

• “Your friend is your needs answered.” – Khalil Gibran

• “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” – Khalil Gibran
• “Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.” – Khalil Gibran
• “The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.” – Khalil Gibran
• “Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “Trust in dreams, for in them is the hidden gate to eternity.” ― Khalil Gibran

• “The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.” ― Khalil Gibran

Inspirational Khalil Gibran Quotes

• “The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.” ― Kahil Gibran
• “Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “And God said “Love Your Enemy,” and I obeyed him and loved myself.” ― Khalil Gibran, The Broken Wings
• “Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.” ― Khalil Gibran

Wise Khalil Gibran Quotes

• “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.” ― Khahil Gibran
• “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “Today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.” ― Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam
• “Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.” ― Khalil Gibran, The Broken Wings
• “They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.” ― Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam

Beautiful Quotes By Khalil Gibran

• “If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.” – Khalil Gibran
• “Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.” – Khalil Gibran
• “We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.” – Khalil Gibran
• “If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.” – Khalil Gibran
• “Every man loves two women; the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born” ― Khalil Gibran
• “Work is love made visible. And if you can’t work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “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.” ― Khalil Gibran
• “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” ― Khalil Gibran
• “The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.” ― K halil Gibran, The Broken Wings

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57 Kahlil Gibran Quotes On Love, Kindness, Time, And Life

By: Author Bulgarea Candin

Posted on Last updated: March 7, 2021

List Of 57 Kahlil Gibran Quotes On Love, Kindness, Time, And Life:

#1 “We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.”

#2 “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.”

#3 “Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.”

#4 “And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”

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

#6 “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?”

#7 “Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.”

#8 “Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.”

#9 “The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.”

#10 “The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.”

#11 “One’s own religion is, after all, a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.” 

#12 “When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.”

#13 “My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.”

#14 “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.”

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

#16 “They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.”

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#18 “Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way, your mind looks at what happens.”

#19 “The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.”

#20 “To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.”

#21 “Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers, it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.”

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#22 “Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

#23 “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.”

#24 ”Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.”

#26 “You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.”

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

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

#29 “Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”

#30 “The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.”

#31 “You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.”

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

#33 “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding… And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy”

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#34 “Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

#35 “To belittle, you have to be little.”

#36 “I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.”

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#37 “For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”

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

#39 “It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone… but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.”

#40 “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.”

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

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#42 “We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.”

#43 “Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”

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

#45 “And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

#46 “The timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.”

#47 “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself”

#48 “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.”

#49 “Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”

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#50 “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.”

#51 “One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.”

#52 “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

#53 “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

#54 “Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, that we may record our emptiness.”

#55 ”Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

#56 “If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.”

#57 “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”

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“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.” ― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Prophet

“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. 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. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.” ― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Prophet

“When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth...... But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself." But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully.” ― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Prophet

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself” ― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Prophet

“The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.” ― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Prophet

“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair” ― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Prophet

“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.” ― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Prophet

“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.” ― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Prophet

“To belittle, you have to be little.” ― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Prophet

“Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” ― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Prophet

“You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.” ― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Prophet

“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.” ― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Prophet

“When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.” ― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Prophet

“And a woman spoke, saying, "Tell us of Pain." And he said: Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy; And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields. And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief. Much of your pain is self-chosen. 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 tranquillity: For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen, And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.” ― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Prophet

“Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation” ― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Prophet

“ما أنبل القلب الحزين الذي لايمنعه حزنه على ان ينشد أغنية مع القلوب الفرحة” ― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Prophet

“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.” ― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Prophet

“You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of the ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.” ― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Prophet

“For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live. For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness. And in th 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.” ― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Prophet

“No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.” ― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Prophet

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.” ― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Prophet

“إن ما تشعرون به من الألم هو انكسار القشرة التي تغلف إدراككم . وكما أن القشرة الصلدة التي تحجب الثمرة يجب أن تتحطم حتى يبرز قلبها من ظلمة الأرض إلى نور الشمس .. هكذا أنتم أيضاً .. يجب أن تحطم الآلام قشوركم قبل أن تعرفوا معنى الحياة .. لأنكم لو استطعتم أن تعيروا عجائب حياتكم اليومية حقها من التأمل والدهشة لما كنتم ترون ألامكم أقل غرابة من أفراحكم .. أنتم مخيرون في الكثير من آلامكم .. وهذا الكثير من آلامكم هو الجرعة الشديدة المرارة التي بواسطتها يَشفي الطبيب الحكيم الساهر في أعماقكم أسقام نفوسكم البشرية ..” ― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Prophet

“For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?” ― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Prophet

“Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.” Say not, “I have found the path of the soul.” Say rather, “I have met the soul walking upon my path.” For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.” ― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Prophet

“أحبوا بعضكم بعضا ولكن لا تحيلوا الحب إلى قيد: بل أتيحوا له بالأحرى أن يكون بحرا يموج بين شطآن أرواحكم .. ليملأ الواحد كأس الآخر ... لكن لا تشربوا من كأس واحدة وليعط الآخر من خبزه .. لكن لا تأكلوا من نفس الرغيف غنوا وارقصوا معا ، وافرحوا ، لكن ليبق كل واحد منكم وحيدا مثلما تبقى أوتار الفيتارة وحدها ، رغم أنها ترتعش بنفس الموسيقى” ― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Prophet

“كلٌمـا عمٌق الحزنٌ حفرَةً في كينونتك , ازدادت قُدرتك على احتواء فَرح أكثر” ― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Prophet

“أولادكم ليسوا لكم أولادكم أبناء الحياة المشتاقة إلى نفسها, بكم يأتون إلى العالم, ولكن ليس منكم. ومع أنهم يعيشون معكم, فهم ليسوا ملكاً لكم. أنتم تستطيعون أن تمنحوهم محبتكم, ولكنكم لا تقدرون أن تغرسوا فيهم بذور أفكاركم, لأن لهم أفكارأً خاصةً بهم. وفي طاقتكم أن تصنعوا المساكم لأجسادكم. ولكن نفوسهم لا تقطن في مساكنكم. فهي تقطن في مسكن الغد, الذي لا تستطيعون أن تزوروه حتى ولا في أحلامكم. وإن لكم أن تجاهدوا لكي تصيروا مثلهم. ولكنكم عبثاً تحاولون أن تجعلوهم مثلكم. لأن الحياة لا ترجع إلى الوراء, ولا تلذ لها الإقامة في منزل الأمس. أنتم الأقواس وأولادكم سهام حية قد رمت بها الحياة عن أقواسكم. فإن رامي السهام ينظر العلامة المنصوبة على طريق اللانهاية, فيلويكم بقدرته لكي تكون سهامه سريعة بعيدة المدى. لذلك, فليكن التواؤكم بين يدي رامي السهام الحكيم لأجل المسرة والغبطة. لأنه, كما يحب السهم الذي يطير من قوسه, هكذا يحب القوس الذي يثبت بين يديه.” ― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Prophet

“And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.” ― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Prophet

“When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And When his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And When he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden... But if in your fear you would seek only love’s peace and love’s pleasure, Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love’s threshing-floor, Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears... But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully.” ― Kahlil Gibran, quote from The Prophet

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Khalil Gibran Quotes: Love, Life, and the Essence of Death

• Ajit Pandey
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The words of Khalil Gibran transcend time and resonate deeply with the human spirit. We immerse ourselves in the timeless wisdom of this Lebanese-American poet and philosopher with this collection of 40 quotes. Gibran’s thoughts cover a wide range of emotions and contemplations, capturing the essence of love, the complexities of life, and mortality reflections. Each quote contains a profound insight that invites us to ponder and reflect, providing guidance and solace in times of reflection. Join us on this journey through Khalil Gibran’s words as we investigate the timeless themes that continue to touch hearts and minds around the world.

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Khalil Gibran Quotes On Life

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Gibran’s insights on love are a symphony of emotions and comprehension that reveal the depth and beauty of this universal feeling. He reveals love’s transformative power, freedom, and ability to bring both joy and sorrow through his quotes, resonating with the complexities of the heart.

“When you love you should not say, ‘God is in my heart,’ but rather, ‘I am in the heart of God.'” KHALIL GIBRAN, “THE PROPHET”

“Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” KHALIL GIBRAN, “THE PROPHET”

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” KHALIL GIBRAN, “THE PROPHET”

“Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.” KHALIL GIBRAN, “THE PROPHET”

“Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.” KHALIL GIBRAN, “THE BROKEN WINGS”

“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.” KHALIL GIBRAN, “THE VISION: REFLECTIONS ON THE WAY OF THE SOUL”

“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.” KHALIL GIBRAN, “THE PROPHET”

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” KHALIL GIBRAN, “THE MADMAN”

“Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.” KHALIL GIBRAN, “THE VISION: REFLECTIONS ON THE WAY OF THE SOUL”

“In love, one and one are one.” KHALIL GIBRAN, “SAND AND FOAM”

“Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.” KHALIL GIBRAN, “THE PROPHET”

According to Gibran, life is a woven tapestry of experiences, trials, and lessons. His life quotes weave together perspectives on growth, purpose, and the complexities of existence, providing guidance on navigating its unpredictability.

“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” KHALIL GIBRAN, “THE VISION: REFLECTIONS ON THE WAY OF THE SOUL”

“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.” KHALIL GIBRAN, “THE PROPHET”

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

“Life is an island in an ocean of loneliness, an island whose rocks are hopes, whose trees are dreams, whose flowers are solitude, and whose brooks are thirst.” KHALIL GIBRAN, “SAND AND FOAM”

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.” KHALIL GIBRAN, “THE BROKEN WINGS”

“Say not, ‘I have found the path of the soul.’ Say rather, ‘I have met the soul walking upon my path.'” KHALIL GIBRAN, “THE PROPHET”

“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.” KHALIL GIBRAN, “THE VISION: REFLECTIONS ON THE WAY OF THE SOUL”

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

“To belittle, you have to be little.” KHALIL GIBRAN, “THE VISION: REFLECTIONS ON THE WAY OF THE SOUL”

“Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do.” KHALIL GIBRAN, “THE PROPHET”

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.” KHALIL GIBRAN, “THE PROPHET”

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.” KHALIL GIBRAN, “THE PROPHET”

“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” KHALIL GIBRAN, “THE PROPHET”

Gibran’s thoughts on death are not morbid, but rather profound reflections on the inevitable passage from life to eternity. His quotes provide a viewpoint that embraces the natural cycle of existence, inviting reflection on the mysteries and continuity that exist beyond mortality.

“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.” KHALIL GIBRAN, “THE PROPHET”

“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.” KHALIL GIBRAN, “THE PROPHET”

“Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.” KHALIL GIBRAN, “SAND AND FOAM”

“When you are born, your work is placed in your heart.” KHALIL GIBRAN, “THE VISION: REFLECTIONS ON THE WAY OF THE SOUL”

“I am alive like you, and I am standing beside you. Close your eyes and look around, you will see me in front of you.” KHALIL GIBRAN, “SAND AND FOAM”

“To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of the ocean by the frailty of its foam.” KHALIL GIBRAN, “THE VISION: REFLECTIONS ON THE WAY OF THE SOUL”

“When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.” KHALIL GIBRAN, “SAND AND FOAM”

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.” KHALIL GIBRAN, “THE PROPHET”

“To be able to look backward and say: ‘This I have today, because yesterday I was.’ This is the way of a poet.” KHALIL GIBRAN, “SAND AND FOAM”

“And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?” KHALIL GIBRAN, “THE PROPHET”

“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.” KHALIL GIBRAN, “THE PROPHET”

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.” KHALIL GIBRAN, “THE PROPHET”

Khalil Gibran’s words continue to shine brightly, guiding us through the maze of emotions, thoughts, and existential musings. As we come to the end of this journey through 40 of his poignant quotes, we will have a better understanding of the nuances of love, the mysteries of life, and the inevitability of death. Gibran’s timeless wisdom continues to inspire introspection and contemplation, reminding us of the universal human experience that transcends boundaries and time.

Ajit Pandey graduated in Electronics & Communications Engineering and really loves being a good leader. When he's not doing tech stuff, he enjoys hanging out at swimming pools and going on hiking trails. Ajit writes cool articles and quotes about lots of different things he's into, giving you smart and inspiring ideas. Check out what he says for a cool view on both tech and life's adventures.

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When the heart hurts, sometimes the only medicine is poetry. For introspective introverts like me, this is doubly true. 

We introverts often struggle to find the right words in real life, yet we grasp our voice in the written word. 

Lebanese-American writer and poet Kahlil Gibran wrote of struggles and insights many introverts will relate to.

So, if you’re feeling a sense of loneliness and longing, I’ve put together my favourite Kahlil Gibran quotes on love, solitude, and pain. 

Let me know which one speaks to you most in the comments. ?

For introverts whose sweet solitude has soured into bitter loneliness:

“Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.” ― Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.” ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

For introverts who overthink and can’t let go:

“Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.” ― Kahlil Gibran

“And God said “Love Your Enemy,” and I obeyed him and loved myself.” ― Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

For introverts who are afraid to love again:

“Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.” ― Khalil Gibran, Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran

“It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone… but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.” ― Kahlil Gibran

“And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.” ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

For introverts who care too much what others think:

“Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.”― Kahlil Gibran

For introverts who would rather be alone than endure mindless chatter:

“I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.” ― Kahlil Gibran

“And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered. For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.” ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

For introverts who feel guilty for asking for space:

“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… And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.” ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

I hope you enjoyed these quotes. If you’re wondering how to deal with loneliness as an introvert, I share 7 steps to leave loneliness behind and make real friends in my free Introvert Connection Guide .

Over to you

Which quote did you like best? Feel free to share your favorites in the comments. 🙂

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I truly enjoyed all of the quotes. They were clearly selected by an introvert and that kindred spirit in the editing cane through. Thank you.

Aww thanks, Kristen. Yes, I took great care in selecting them. So glad you enjoyed them. <3

Beautiful wise words Michaela. Thank you so much

My favorite is Travel and Tell No One…. Every time I travel or vacation alone, my parents have words of warning and reminding me of the grave danger I might be in. This has been going on for 20 years. It’s depressing, and now I tell no one. I’m so much happier!

Each phrase brought promise and peace. Thank you for these reminders. #notalone

I’m so happy to hear that Trudi! <3

“It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone… but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.” ― Kahlil Gibran

This quote resonates with me the most. It’s probably why I find it challenging to move on, and therefore am stuck in my view of relationships.

Yes, it’s such a powerful quote, and so true for us introverts who have a hard time letting go.

I loved reading these 🙂 They resonated so much! Especially the ones on love.

So happy to hear that Jess! <3

You’re welcome, Adrienne. 🙂

Great quotes from Khalil, and Big thanks to you Michaela for sharing.. Your incessant search to find golden nuggets for your community is highly appreciated?

It’s nice to be appreciated! Thanks Hamid. 🙂

It was as if you knew that I was feeling lonely. Thank you so much for these gems.?

This hits incredibly close to home and really makes me stop to think. Thanks for sharing this!

Michaela – i dont comment on your postings, but this post was both thoughtful and comforting. thank you!

Loved them all but the one about sweetness of friendship and the one about love (it takes a moment…) spoke to my heart today. Thank you for sharing!

My fav is the one about feeling guilty for asking for space. Some people don’t understand loving one’s solitude. When I need my space, they try to cling tighter. That, of course, makes the relationship worse. I think I’d die if I couldn’t “breathe alone” from time to time. If not die, go crazy. 🙂 Thank you for this, Michaela!

All of them of them are good. I think I like “I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.” the best. Thank you for sharing these, Michaela!

I have loved Gibran since 1965, 17 years old, long before I realized I was an introvert and what that meant. I have all his books, the Profit is my bible.

“It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone… but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.”

It happened just like that. Day one. Moment one. I know he is now happily married and a great dad, and I am very happy for him, but I know I will never forget him.

Love never vanishes. To forget is also a type of freedom. A freedom of mind. Love is never forgotten and your soul knows.

“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… And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.”

This so eloquently captures the essence of free and unconditional love. A place where one loves you so much that they can let you be you. You celebrate the individuality of one another together in the unity of your love. So incredibly powerful to me. I once heard it beautifully explained that the love between two people is the creation of a third being. It is the fruit of what each give to the other.

Some were okay and some I didn’t quite understand. We all have to find what works best for us – myself I find much more refreshment and encouragement in Biblical verses (Bible = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth) 🙂 and here’s a bonus by Elisabeth Elliot – “You are loved with an everlasting love, and underneath are the everlasting arms.” (speaking about Almighty God our Creator).

LOVE these!!! I beautifully profound and true, and just what I needed. Thank you. ❤️

These were great quotes Michaela! However, they just don’t inspire me like you do!! 🙂 I think you’ve earned another gold star. 😉

Thanks for sharing these marvelous words through which wisdom resonates like a wolf’s howl through and up your spine when heard in the forest. #3 – The unexpected virtue of ignorance, #10 There’s something primordial that connects us on the most fundamental level before any form of communication. #11 The plasticity of love can indeed only be found in the “nothingness” between us. I really enjoyed all of them. But if I’m sincere the one that really hit me like a bullet in the back of my head and actually brought tears in my eyes is #4. Perhaps the most powerful set of words I’ve come across in a long while, maybe ever. Those what label it as romanticism simply know better. Darling, thanks for reminding us how beautiful these complex and often misunderstood lives of ours really are. Much love.

Thank you. I love my space. the people I end up loving are those who give me space, not grow in my shadow.

Thank you for these quotes! And all your emails. So much appreciated. Xx

These quotes are the perfect birthday present. Thank you!

I love the second quote where the Lord said to love your enemy so Kahlil stated that he will love himself since it is a fact that we are our own worst enemy.

I love the other quote about not telling anyone about your travels considering the fact that bad people don’t want to hear them and/or ruin them

i love khalil gibran, i write too and in sone manners i think i share a similar type of energy with him. i love this quotes but seeing michaela photo at the end is a gift to my heart. i love you Michaela

The one that resonated with me the most is, “Forgetfulness is a form of freedom”. I am so forgetful and I believe does have merit–as long as you don’t punish yourself for being forgetful. I DO wish I remembered more–especially happy memories. Sadly, we cannot cherry pick our memories. I believe forgetfulness is a coping mechanism. For me forgetting began at a very young age–IF I am remembering correctly… sigh.

That’s a good one, indeed!

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Kahlil Gibran Short Biography

Born on 6 January 1883 in Bsharrī, Lebanon, Gibran Khalil Gibran (also spelled Kahlil ) was a writer, poet, and artist.

At 15 Gibran studied at Collège de la Sagesse in Beirut , Lebanon and graduated 3 years later, he then moved to Paris to learn how to paint.

He moved to Boston and held his first art exhibition in January 1904. A year later Gibran would publish A Profile of the Art of Music, which was first released in Arabic.

After some time , Gibran returned to Paris to further his art studies. He made the journey back to the United States and landed on October 22, 1910. Gibran then became a member of the Golden Link Society, a Syrian international organization.

In 1913, Gibran began contributing to a newspaper named Al-Funoon, which was printed in the Arabic language.

Gibran published his most notable and popular book in 1923 entitled The Prophet , centering on topics such as love , sorrow, and religion. Each chapter also contains drawings by Gibran.

After his death, Gibran’s books continued to impact people throughout the world and he became known as the third best-selling poet of all time. 

Further Reading:

• On the Third Most Popular Poet of All Time – Literary Hub 
• Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet: Why is it so Loved? – BBC 
• Lebanon’s Most Famous Son: Why Kahlil Gibran’s Words Are Still Prophetic Today – The National

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