Quotes from Khalil Gibran

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman.

The truly good is he who is one with all those who are deemed bad.

They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.

Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.

I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now.

The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.

A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.

If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.

Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means.

You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life.

Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.

I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.

life unfolds itself in mysteries ways.

For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Love is timeless.... Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.

When you are sorrowful, look again.

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