Kahlil Gibran Quotes Page 2
Best 58 Quotes by Kahlil Gibran – Page 2 of 2
“Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
“Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.”
“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”
“Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.”
“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”
“Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.”
“The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.”
“The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.”
“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”
“There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.”
“Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.”
“To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.”
“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.”
“Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.”
“Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.”
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“Dreams come to tell us something about our lives that we are missing.”
“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”
“When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
“Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.”
“Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.”
“Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.”
“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.”
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.”
“Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.”
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.”
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
“Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.”
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“No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.”
