324 Quotes by Kahlil Gibran

Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight more in breaking them.

Pleasure is a freedom-song,But it is not freedom.It is the blossoming of your desires,But it is not their fruit.It is a depth calling unto a height,But it is not the deep nor the high.It is the caged taking wing,But it is not space encompassed.Aye, in very truth, pleasure is a freedom-song.And I fain would have you sing it with fullness of heart; yet I would not have you lose your hearts in the singing.

Oftentimes in denying yourself pleasure you do but store the desire in the recesses of your being.Who knows but that which seems omitted today, waits for tomorrow?Even your body knows its heritage and its rightful need and will not be deceived.And your body is the harp of your soul,And it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.

إنما اللذة نشيد من أناشيد الحريةو لكنها ليست الحريةو هي أزهار رغباتكمو ليست الثمارو هي غور يتطلع إلى القمةو ليست الغور و لا القمةو هي الطائر المقفوص و قد بسط جناحيهو لكنها ليست الأجنحة التي تلف الفضاء

A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings.

Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination.

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

What is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?

An old man likes to return in memory to the days of his youth like a stranger wholongs to go back to his own country. He delights to tell stories of the past like a poet who takes pleasure in reciting his best poem. He lives spiritually in the past because the present passes swiftly, and the future seems to him an approach to the oblivion of the grave. An hour full of old memories passed like the shadows of the trees over the grass