Kahlil Gibran

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth. -Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)

The lust for comfort murders the passions of the soul. -Kahlil Gibran

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. -Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931)

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. -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, mystic, poet and artist (1883-1931)

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a Zealous one asking what you can do for your country. -Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931 [The New Frontier]

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain. - Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist)

Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give. It is then generosity on their part. -Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) [Sand and Foam]

When you enjoy loving your neighbour it ceases to be a virtue. - Kahil Gibran, mystic, poet and artist (1883-1931)

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. -Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. -Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) [Sand and Foam]

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. -Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) [Sand and Foam]

Said a hunted fox followed by twenty horsemen and a pack of twenty hounds, "Of course they will kill me. But how poor and how stupid they must be. Surely it would not be worth while for twenty foxes riding on twenty asses and accompanied by twenty wolves to chase and kill one man." -Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) [Sand and Foam]

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a Zealous one asking what you can do for your country. -Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931 [from The New Frontier, an article by Gibran]

When you have solved all mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life. -Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) [Sand and Foam]

A strange form of self-indulgence! There are times when I would be wronged and cheated, that I may laugh at the expense of those who think I do not know I am being wronged and cheated. -Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) [Sand and Foam]

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 what he does not say. -Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) [Sand and Foam]

When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." \ And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, "Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful." -Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) [Sand and Foam]

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfful to seek other than itself. -Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) [Sand and Foam]

In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe all to all men. -Kahlil Gibran
(1883-1931) [Sand and Foam]

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues. -Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) [Sand and Foam]

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions. -*Kahlil Gibran {1883-1931 Lebanese Poet & Novelist}

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

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
-Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) [Sand and Foam]

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells. -Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) [Sand and Foam]

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. -Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, dramatist, and artist (1883-1931)

The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reach us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiation of their personalities. -Kahlil Gibran, poet and artist(1883-1931)

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For Life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children,as living arrows, are sent forth. Kahlil Gibran, Prophet.

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, mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931)

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, mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931)

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. -Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931)

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. -Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931)