Quotes from Kahlil Gibran

Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be happy on this earth and lead the way to felicity and preach its gospel wherever he goes.

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.

The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self, so therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.

Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness.

The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

When life life does not find a singer to sing her heart, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

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

He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.

Yes there is a Nirvanah: it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture and in putting your child to sleep and in writing the last line of your poem.

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.

The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remaining over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves.