1,015 Quotes by Khalil Gibran

And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rises above its own ashes.

There are those among you who seek the talkative through fear of being alone. The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked selves and they would escape.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

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

My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear--a / care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee / from my negligence.

Love is timeless. Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.

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

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.

You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have built are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.