Quotes from Khalil Gibran
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.
- Khalil Gibran
A truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.
- Khalil Gibran
God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.
- Khalil Gibran
For a love to grow through the test of everyday living, one must respect that zone of privacy where one retires to relate to the inside instead of the outside.
- Khalil Gibran
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
- Khalil Gibran
Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born.
- Khalil Gibran
When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
- Khalil Gibran
He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life.
- Khalil Gibran
How can I lose faith in the justice of life, when the dreams of those who sleep upon feathers are not more beautiful than the dreams of those who sleep upon the earth?
- Khalil Gibran
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
- Khalil Gibran
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
- Khalil Gibran
Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.
- Khalil Gibran