Quotes from Khalil Gibran
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
- Khalil Gibran
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
- Khalil Gibran
Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman.
- Khalil Gibran
The truly good is he who is one with all those who are deemed bad.
- Khalil Gibran
If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.
- Khalil Gibran
Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means.
- Khalil Gibran
For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.
- Khalil Gibran
Love is timeless.... Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.
- Khalil Gibran
Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
- Khalil Gibran
Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.
- Khalil Gibran
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
- Khalil Gibran
Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.
- Khalil Gibran