Quotes from Khalil Gibran

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

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.

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

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

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.

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

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

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

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

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.

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

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

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

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

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

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

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

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

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

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.

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

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

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.