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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.

“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.”

— Khalil Gibran

Beauty

All Quotes by Khalil Gibran

“When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. 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.”

— Khalil Gibran

Sad

“Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.”

— Khalil Gibran

Happiness

“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.”

— Khalil Gibran

Teacher

“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”

— Khalil Gibran

Poetry

“Love is trembling happiness.”

— Khalil Gibran

Happiness

“Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.”

— Khalil Gibran

Love

“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”

— Khalil Gibran

Faith

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

— Khalil Gibran

Equality

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

— Khalil Gibran

God

“Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.”

— Khalil Gibran

Faith

“Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.”

— Khalil Gibran

Beauty

“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.”

— Khalil Gibran

God

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

— Khalil Gibran

Dreams

“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”

— Khalil Gibran

Knowledge

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

— Khalil Gibran

Nature

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

— Khalil Gibran

Strength

“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

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

— Khalil Gibran

Art

“Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.”

— Khalil Gibran

Knowledge

“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.”

— Khalil Gibran

Sympathy