Khalil Gibran Quotations And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of Khalil Gibran quotations and sayings. He was a Lebanese artist, poet, and writer who, as a young man, migrated to the US together with his family.

“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

“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution”
– 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

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

“The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart”
– Kahlil Gibran

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

“I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers”
– Kahlil Gibran

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.”
– 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

“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.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.”
– Kahlil 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.”
– Kahlil Gibran

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

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

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

“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

“Love is trembling happiness.”
– Kahlil Gibran

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

“… joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality”
– Kahlil Gibran

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

“The chemist who can extract from his heart’s elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.”
– Kahlil Gibran

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

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?”
– Kahlil Gibran

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

“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”
– Kahlil Gibran

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

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

“Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.”
– Kahlil Gibran

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

“Make me, oh God, the prey of the Lion, ere you make the rabbit my prey”
– Kahlil Gibran

“The Real me is mute, it is the acquired that is talkative.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“I am ungrateful to these teachers.”
– Kahlil Gibran

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