324 Quotes by Kahlil Gibran

Life is naked. A nude body is the truest and noblest symbol of life. If I draw a mountain as a heap of human forms and paint a waterfall in the shape of tumbling human bodies, it is because I see in the mountain a heap of living things, and in the waterfall a precipitate current of life.

Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.

When you part from your friend, you grieve not; / For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, / as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.

Rest in reason; move in passion.

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

Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.

The very strength that protects the heart from injury is the strength that prevents the heart from enlarging to its intended greatness within. The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you. And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.