Khalil Gibran was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer of the New York Pen League. May his quotes aid you on your journey of awakening.
“The lust for comfort murders the passions of the soul.” Khalil Gibran
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.” Khalil Gibran
“Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.” Khalil Gibran
“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to.” Khalil Gibran
“Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.” Khalil Gibran
“A traveler I am, and a navigator, and every day I discover a new region within my soul.” Khalil Gibran
“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.” Khalil Gibran
“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.” Khalil Gibran
“I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.” Khalil Gibran
“If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom? Khalil Gibran
“Trust in dreams.” Khalil Gibran
“Remembrance is a form of meeting.” Khalil Gibran
“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.” Khalil Gibran
“Rest in reason; move in passion.” Khalil Gibran
“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.” Khalil Gibran
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” Khalil Gibran
“All that spirits desire, spirits attain.” Khalil Gibran
“The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.” Khalil Gibran
“Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.” Khalil Gibran
“I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.” Khalil Gibran
“Much of your pain is self-chosen.” Khalil Gibran
“Love one another.” Khalil Gibran
“Love, it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.” Khalil Gibran
“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.” Khalil Gibran
“Work is love made visible.” Khalil Gibran
“Look deep into your heart.” Khalil Gibran
“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
“Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.” Khalil Gibran
“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.” Khalil Gibran
“Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only the corrupt blood.” Khalil Gibran
“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.” Khalil Gibran
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” Khalil Gibran
“And God said love your enemy and I obeyed him and loved myself.” Khalil Gibran
“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.” Khalil Gibran
“Many seek life without, unaware that is within them.” Khalil Gibran
“Forgetting is a form of freedom.” Khalil Gibran
“No one can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.” Khalil Gibran
“By losing your goal, you have lost your way.” Khalil Gibran
“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.” Khalil Gibran
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.” Khalil Gibran
