Quotes from Khalil Gibran

If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day.

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.

Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?'

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

We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting

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

When a man's hand touches the hand of a woman, they both touch the heart of eternity.

For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.

Am I less man because I believe in a greater man?

Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.

Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.

Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?

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.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Work is love made visible.

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

When you are born, your work is placed in your heart.

Rest in reason. Move in Passion.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

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.

And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.

Ever has it been that loves knows not its own death until the hour of separation.

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

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