Quotes from Kahlil Gibran

Not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city.

For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

Je tiefer sich das Leid in euer Sein eingräbt, desto mehr Freude könnt ihr fassen.

Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond.

A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun.

You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Smile, my beloved, like the gold smiles from my father's coffers.

I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

Life is but a sleep disturbed By dreaming

You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good, you are only loitering and sluggard.

Dig anywhere in the earth and you will find a treasure, only you must dig with the faith of a peasant.

My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear - a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence

When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

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.