All Kahlil Gibran quotes ⇑
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.Kindness Strength
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.Love Emotions
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.Heart Philosophy
I am ignorant of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.Truth Wisdom Ignorance
The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.Dreams Time Memory
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.Death Poetry Earth
I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.Freedom Understanding
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life, bringing peace, abolishing strife.Music Peace Spirit
No human relation gives one possession in another-every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.Friendship Love Individuality
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.Philosophy Short
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.Life Love Romantic
When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.Friendship Poetry Simile
Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.Heart Poetry
The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.Beauty Change Emotions Reality
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.Philosophy Wisdom Children Laughter
Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.Short Earth
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.Loneliness Society
When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.Feeling Knowing
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hairPoetry Earth
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were. 
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. 
Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness. 
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts. 
We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side. 
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. 
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror. 
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. 
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. 
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. 
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
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.
I am ignorant of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.
The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life, bringing peace, abolishing strife.
No human relation gives one possession in another-every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.
Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.
The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.
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.
If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.
