Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Quotes

• “No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.The teacher who ...”
• “You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link.This is but half the truth.You are also...”
• “إذا أشارت إليكم المحبة فاتبعوها, وإن كانت مسالكها صعبة متحدرة.وإذا ضمتكم جناحيها فاطيعوها, وإن جرحكم السيف المستور بين ر...”
• “We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where...”
• “Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”But I say unto you, they are...”
• “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts;And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart...”
• “When you part from your friend, you grieve not;For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, asthe ...”
• “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 religio...”
• “Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetit...”
• “He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.”
• “For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended,is a flame that burns to its own destruction.”
• “Love one another, but make not a bond of love:Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”
• “You give but little when you give of your possessions.It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
• “No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”
• “And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”
• “Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”
• “He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.”
• “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”