Kahlil Gibran Quotes

Lebanese American writer, artist and poet
(January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931)

• KAHLIL GIBRAN QUOTE OF THE PAGE
  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.
• To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
• An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
• A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
• And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
• Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
• You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
• Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
• 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?
• In the sweetness of friendship; let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
• Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all
• Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
• Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
• The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.
• And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
• For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
• In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath.
• I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.








• The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
• Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.
• Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
• I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
• If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
• It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
• The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain
• The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.
• No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
• Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself
• To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice
• 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
• Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness
• If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
• If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember

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