Quotes from Kahlil Gibran

During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has really been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much.

Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.

Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.

Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

Half of what I say is meaningless but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.

He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it.

History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

Love is know the pain of too much tenderness.

Man merely discovers' he never can and never will invent.

Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.

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.

Oh, heart, I the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God.

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

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

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