Quotes from Khalil Gibran
Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
- Khalil Gibran
Love descends upon our souls by the will of God and not by the demand or the plea of the individual.
- Khalil Gibran
Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
- Khalil Gibran
If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
- Khalil Gibran
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
- Khalil Gibran
You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
- Khalil Gibran
Our pain carves out a larger space for love to fill.
- Khalil Gibran
Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames.
- Khalil Gibran
Unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.
- Khalil Gibran
For love is sufficient unto love.
- Khalil Gibran
And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless?
- Khalil Gibran
Love has the power that dispels death; charm that conquers the enemy.
- Khalil Gibran