Quotes from Khalil Gibran
That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.
- Khalil Gibran
Men would bless you or curse you; The curse, a protest against failure, The blessing, a hymn of the hunter Who comes back from the hills With provision for his mate.
- Khalil Gibran
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
- Khalil Gibran
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
- Khalil Gibran
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
- Khalil Gibran
No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.
- Khalil Gibran
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flower to bloom?
- Khalil Gibran
You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.
- Khalil Gibran
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.
- Khalil Gibran
Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.
- Khalil Gibran
The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
- Khalil Gibran
Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings.
- Khalil Gibran