324 Quotes by Kahlil Gibran

He stood up and looked at me even as the seasons might look down upon the field, and He smiled. And He said again: "All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.

Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

He suffered much, but he understood the mystery of pain: he knew that tears make all things shine.

Yesterday is but to-day’s memory and to-morrow is to-day’s dream.

The professors in the academy say, “Do not make the model more beautiful than she is,” and my soul whispers, “O if you could only paint the model as beautiful as she really is.

Beauty is a thing of might and dread.Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us.

I want to write more but I cannot. I am a little weary and the silence in my soul is black. I wish I could rest my head on your shoulder.

The house that does not comfort the needy is worthy of naught but destruction.