1,015 Quotes by Khalil Gibran

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.

Say not, I have found the path of the soul Say rather, I have met the soul walking upon my path.

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor; and fitter that he should be a victim to the frailty of human instincts than that he should be powerful and crush the flowers of life and disfigure the beauties of feeling with his desire.

For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.

The longing for paradise is paradise itself.

Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast It shall not be a glistening film that covers a wound, but an eyelid that guards the eye.

You are a flower crushed beneath the feet of the animal that is concealed in a human being. Take comfort, in that you are the flower crushed and not the foot that has crushed it.

The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.