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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.

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

— Khalil Gibran

Dreams

All Quotes by Khalil Gibran

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

— Khalil Gibran

Strength

“Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.”

— Khalil Gibran

Knowledge

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.”

— Khalil Gibran

Love

“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

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

— Khalil Gibran

God

“When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.”

— Khalil Gibran

Love

“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.”

— Khalil Gibran

Life

“Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.”

— Khalil Gibran

Life

“Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.”

— Khalil Gibran

Wisdom

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”

— Khalil Gibran

Friendship

“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

“No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”

— Khalil Gibran

Knowledge

“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 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

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

— Khalil Gibran

Death

“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.”

— Khalil Gibran

Business

“Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.”

— Khalil Gibran

Time

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

— Khalil Gibran

Knowledge

“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

— Khalil Gibran

Love

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

— Khalil Gibran

Poetry