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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.

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

— Khalil Gibran

Faith

All Quotes by Khalil Gibran

“March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.”

— Khalil Gibran

Fear

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

— Khalil Gibran

God

“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

“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

“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.”

— Khalil Gibran

Wisdom

“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

“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

“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

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

— Khalil Gibran

Faith

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

— Khalil Gibran

Nature

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

— Khalil Gibran

Love

“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

“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

“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

“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.”

— Khalil Gibran

Beauty

“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.”

— Khalil Gibran

Attitude

“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

“Love is trembling happiness.”

— Khalil Gibran

Happiness

“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