Kahlil Gibran Quotes – Wisdom and Inspiration

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.

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

When you reach the heart of life, you shall find beauty in all things, even in the most mundane.

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

In the sweetness of friendship, let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

And God said, ‘Love your enemy,’ and I obeyed him and loved myself.

We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Kahlil Gibran Quotes – Wisdom and Inspiration part 2

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.

The appearance of things changes according to our emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

When love beckons to you follow him, though his ways are hard and steep.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

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

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know myself, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Out of suffering emerged the strongest souls. The most massive characters are seared with scars.

To be able to look back upon one’s life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

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.

The timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the ‘still small voice’ within me.

No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different.

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.

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.

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

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

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

Pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Everything we look upon is a reflection of something within ourselves.

To belittle, you have to be little.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.