Quotes from Khalil Gibran
Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.
- Khalil Gibran
If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts.
- Khalil Gibran
All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.
- Khalil Gibran
The first thought of God was an angel. The first word of God was a man
- Khalil Gibran
Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.
- Khalil Gibran
If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day.
- Khalil Gibran
If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.
- Khalil Gibran
Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?'
- Khalil Gibran
When a man's hand touches the hand of a woman, they both touch the heart of eternity.
- Khalil Gibran
Am I less man because I believe in a greater man?
- Khalil Gibran
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.
- Khalil Gibran
Work is love made visible.
- Khalil Gibran