Quotes from Khalil Gibran
The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him he will unfold his wings and fly back to his dwelling place.
- Khalil Gibran
For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory.
- Khalil Gibran
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
- Khalil Gibran
All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.
- Khalil Gibran
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
- Khalil Gibran
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
- Khalil Gibran
The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
- Khalil Gibran
Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep." Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"
- Khalil Gibran
Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding?
- Khalil Gibran
Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
- Khalil Gibran
The power to Love is God's greatest gift to man, For it never will be taken from the Blessed one who loves.
- Khalil Gibran
Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.
- Khalil Gibran