324 Quotes by Kahlil Gibran

And my heart bled within me; for you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, and when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal and a fullfilment. you should be free indeed when your days are not without care nor your nights without a word and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked unbound.

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

Self is a sea boundless and measureless.

Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.

I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.

When you were a wandering desire in the mist, I too was there, a wandering desire. Then we sought one another, and out of our eagerness dreams were born. And dreams were time limitless, and dreams were space without measure.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness.

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