Quotes from Kahlil Gibran

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are the eternity and you are the mirror.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live. For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness. And in th 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.

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

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.

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

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

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.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

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.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.