Quotes By Author: Kahlil Gibran

“And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles.Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain.You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees.”

“I came here to be for all and with all,and what I do today in my solitudewill be echoed tomorrow by the multitude.What I say now with one heartwill be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts…”

“You are my brother and I love you. I love you worshipping in your church, kneeling in your temple, and praying in your mosque. You and I and all are children of one religion, for the varied paths of religion are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being, extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, anxious to receive all.”

“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and melt into the sun?”

“Think not I say these things in order that you may say the one to the other, “He praised us well. He saw but the good in us.”I only speak to you in words of that which you yourselves know in thought.And what is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?Your thoughts and my words are waves from a sealed memory that keeps records of our yesterdays,And of the ancient days when the earth knew not us nor herself,And of nights when earth was upwrought with confusion,Wise men have come to you to give you of their wisdom. I came to take of your wisdom.”

“Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas.For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing;And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.”

“Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.”

“When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.”

“You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link.This is but half the truth.You are also as strong as your strongest link.To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of the oceanby the frailty of its foam.To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.”

“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.”

“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”

“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”

“Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”But I say unto you, they are inseparable.Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”

“You give but little when you give of your possessions.It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”

“It is life in quest of life in bodies that fear the grave.”