Khalil Gibran Quotes

Wisdom is not in words. Wisdom is meaning within words

Khalil Gibran

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love

Khalil Gibran

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

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Khalil Gibran

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Khalil Gibran

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Khalil Gibran

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Khalil Gibran

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