23 beautiful quotes by Kahlil Gibran. Click any quote to view, download and share it as an image.
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Kahlil Gibran
“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for...
“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limb...
“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 als...
“One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.”
“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and...
“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptin...
“Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”But I say unto you, they ar...
“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”
“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us wher...
“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”
“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.”
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
“You give but little when you give of your possessions.It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”
“If you reveal your secrets to the wind,you should not blame the wind forrevealing them to the trees.”
“Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.”
“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.”
“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has bee...
“No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, t...
“The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic a...
“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not b...
“Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you ...
