Quotes from Khalil Gibran

All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

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

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

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

A root is a flower that disdains fame.

And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep." Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"

Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding?

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

The power to Love is God's greatest gift to man, For it never will be taken from the Blessed one who loves.

Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.

And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness

You who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.

A truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.

God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.

For a love to grow through the test of everyday living, one must respect that zone of privacy where one retires to relate to the inside instead of the outside.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?