Khalil Gibran

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.
- Khalil Gibran

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.
- Khalil Gibran

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

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
- Khalil Gibran

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
- Khalil Gibran

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
- Khalil Gibran

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
- Khalil Gibran

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

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran