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Khalil Gibran

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Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) was a Lebanese-American writer, poet, and visual artist best known for *The Prophet*, a book of poetic essays that has been translated into over 100 languages. His lyrical reflections on love, marriage, work, and death blend Eastern mysticism with Western romanticism in a voice that is entirely his own.

“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”

— Khalil Gibran

Sad

All Quotes by Khalil Gibran

“The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.”

— Khalil Gibran

God

“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”

— Khalil Gibran

Teacher

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

— Khalil Gibran

Friendship

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.”

— Khalil Gibran

Life

“I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.”

— Khalil Gibran

Dreams

“Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.”

— Khalil Gibran

Dreams

“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”

— Khalil Gibran

Sad

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

— Khalil Gibran

Death

“Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.”

— Khalil Gibran

Faith

“Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.”

— Khalil Gibran

Wisdom

“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

— Khalil Gibran

Nature

“Love is trembling happiness.”

— Khalil Gibran

Happiness

“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.”

— Khalil Gibran

Religion

“If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.”

— Khalil Gibran

Death

“Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.”

— Khalil Gibran

Faith

“Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.”

— Khalil Gibran

Fear

“Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.”

— Khalil Gibran

Love

“Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

— Khalil Gibran

Love

“I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.”

— Khalil Gibran

Art

“When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?”

— Khalil Gibran

Music