Quotes from Khalil Gibran

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.

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.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.

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

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of the oceans.

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

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

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

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.

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

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.