1,015 Quotes by Khalil Gibran

Wisdom stands as the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror

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

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasure. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

You can muffle the drum and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

Much of the pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Is not religion all deeds and all reflection, and that which is neither deed nor reflection, but a wonder and a surprise ever springing in the soul, even while the hands hew the stone or tend the loom?