65 Kahlil Gibran Quotes

Gibran was a Lebanese-American writer, poet, and painter. Gibran was a brilliant bohemian artist, and as a result, his quotes are full of meaning and wisdom. Looking for a collection of Kahlil Gibran quotes ? Here are the best quotes by Khalil Gibran.

Kahlil Gibran Quotes

1. “The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.” – Kahlil Gibran

2. “Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.” – Kahlil Gibran

3. “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” – Kahlil Gibran

4. “Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.” – Kahlil Gibran
5. “If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.” – Kahlil Gibran
6. “Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.” – Kahlil Gibran
7. “Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.” – Kahlil Gibran
8. “Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.” – Kahlil Gibran
9. “The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.” – Kahlil Gibran
10. “There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.” – Kahlil Gibran
11. “To be able to look back upon one’s life in satisfaction is to live twice.” – Kahlil Gibran
12. “If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.” –Kahlil Gibran
13. “If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.” – Kahlil Gibran
14. “If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.” – Kahlil Gibran
15. “Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.” – Kahlil Gibran
16. “Yesterday is but today’s memory, tomorrow is today’s dream.” – Kahlil Gibran
17. “It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.” – Kahlil Gibran
18. “Your friend is your needs answered.” – Kahlil Gibran
19. “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” – Kahlil Gibran
20. “If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.” – Kahlil Gibran
21. “Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.” – Khalil Gibran
22. “One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.” Khalil Gibran
23. “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Khalil Gibran
24. “Every man loves two women; the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born.” – Khalil Gibran
25. “We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.” – Khalil Gibran
26. “The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.” – Khalil Gibran
27. “And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Khalil Gibran
28. “We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.” – Khalil Gibran
29. “How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.” – Khalil Gibran
30. “Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.” – Khalil Gibran
31. “If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.” – Khalil Gibran
32. “Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.” – Khalil Gibran
33. “All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.” – Khalil Gibran
34. “You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.” – Khalil Gibran
35. “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.” – Khalil Gibran
36. ”Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.” – Khalil Gibran
37. “When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.” – Khalil Gibran
38. “We are all like the bright moon; we still have our darker side.” – Khalil Gibran
39. “Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.” – Khalil Gibran
40. “Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.” – Khalil Gibran
41. “The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.” – Khalil Gibran
42. “Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.” – Khalil Gibran
43. “Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.” – Khalil Gibran
44. “You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.” – Khalil Gibran
45. “Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.” – Khalil Gibran
46. “The true wealth of a nation lies not in its gold or silver but in its learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its sons.” – Khalil Gibran
47. “Only love and death will change all things.” – Khalil Gibran
48. “I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop.” – Khalil Gibran
49. “Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.” – Khalil Gibran
50. “The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.” – Khalil Gibran
51. “Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.” – Khalil Gibran
52. “I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.” – Khalil Gibran
53. “Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.” – Khalil Gibran
54. “Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.” – Khalil Gibran
55. “Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.” – Khalil Gibran
56. “In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.” – Khalil Gibran
57. “Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” – Khalil Gibran
58. “I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.” – Khalil Gibran
59. “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.” – Khalil Gibran
60. “To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.” – Khalil Gibran
61. “Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.” – Khalil Gibran
62. “Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.” – Khalil Gibran
63. “A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.” – Khalil Gibran
64. “If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?” – Khalil Gibran
65. “You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.” – Khalil Gibran