Khalil Gibran Quotes

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
Khalil Gibran

Desire, Spirits, Attain

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Khalil Gibran

Business, Love, Work

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
Khalil Gibran

Mind, Words, Down

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Khalil Gibran

Truth, Lost, Temper

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Nor, Possessed

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Khalil Gibran

Friendship, Purpose, Spirit

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
Khalil Gibran

Time, End, Here

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Khalil Gibran

Children, Living, Arrows

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Khalil Gibran

Dreams, Men, Among

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Khalil Gibran

Yourself, Give, Truly

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
Khalil Gibran

Giving, Generosity

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
Khalil Gibran

Life, Live, Able

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
Khalil Gibran

Equality, Love, Learn

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Khalil Gibran

Death, Honor, Stranger

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
Khalil Gibran

Progress, Lies, Toward

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Khalil Gibran

Pain, Self, Sick

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Khalil Gibran

Experience, Long, Before

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Khalil Gibran

Poetry, Pain, Joy

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Khalil Gibran

Joy, Days, Might

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Shall, Embrace

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Khalil Gibran

Dreams, Trust, Hidden

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Khalil Gibran

Politics, Life, Liberty

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
Khalil Gibran

Knowledge, Nothing, Lies

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
Khalil Gibran

Power, Justice, Political

Your friend is your needs answered.
Khalil Gibran

Friend, Needs, Answered

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Biography

Nationality: Lebanese

Type: Poet

Born: January 6, 1883

Died: April 10, 1931

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