Quotes from Khalil Gibran
Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery.
- Khalil Gibran
I do not want you to hear that I LOVE you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say.
- Khalil Gibran
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
- 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
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.
- Khalil Gibran
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
- Khalil Gibran
The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
- Khalil Gibran
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
- Khalil Gibran
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
- Khalil Gibran
An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.
- Khalil Gibran
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- 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