324 Quotes by Kahlil Gibran

And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

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.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and his nights is worthy of all else from you. / And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

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

Compulsion is a mirror in which he who looks for long will see his inner self endeavoring to commit suicide.

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.

Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colors; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.