324 Quotes by Kahlil Gibran

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone.Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what they have already achieved, but at what they aspire to achieve

That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined.Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones?And is it not a dream which none of you re member having dreamt, that built your city and fashioned all there is in it?Could you but see the tides of that breath you would cease to see all else,And if you could hear the whispering of the dream you would hear no other sound.But you do not see, nor do you hear, and it is well.

Menn som ikke tilgir kvinnerderes små feil, vil aldri kunneglede seg over deres dyder.

Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil.For what is evil but good tortured by it’s own hunger and thirst?Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.