1,015 Quotes by Khalil Gibran

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

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

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.