1,015 Quotes by Khalil Gibran

You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.

Darkness is dawn not yet born.

The snow and the storm destroy the flower; but its seed they cannot kill.

And that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.

And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.

He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.

Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.

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