Quotes from Kahlil Gibran

To be modest in speaking truth is hypocrisy. TM-ST-95

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.

He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

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.

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

The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say.

By losing your goal, you have lost your way.

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

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.

Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond.

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

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

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

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.