1,015 Quotes by Khalil Gibran

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.