1,015 Quotes by Khalil Gibran

Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames.

Your house is your larger body.

You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.

In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings.

If winter should say, 'Spring is in my heart,' who would believe winter?

He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it.

In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.

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

I learnt silence from the talkative