Kahlil Gibran

Quotes

• “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their...”
• “It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritu...”
• “Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave y...”
• “The Reality of The Other Person Lies Not In What He Reveals To You, But What He Cannot Reveal To You.Therefore, If You W...”
• “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at th...”
• “No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, th...”
• “I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath;I am the memory of a moment of happiness;I am the last gift of the living...”
• “Wenn [der Lehrer] wirklich weise ist, fordert er euch nicht auf, ins Haus seiner Weisheit einzutreten, sondern führt euc...”
• “And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God an...”
• “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...”
• “Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was o...”
• “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 th...”
• “When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been...”
• “The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold o...”
• “I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service i...”
• “In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of exis...”
• “Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptine...”
• “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.”
• “If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”
• “I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.”
• “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
• “Der Lehrer [...] gibt nicht von seiner Weisheit, sondern eher von seinem Glauben und seiner Liebe.”
• “Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.”
• “One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.”
• “Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.”
• “Niemand kann euch etwas eröffnen, das nicht schon im Dämmern eures Wissens schlummert.”
• “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
• “ولمّا فتحت قلبي لكي ارى السعادة, وجدت مرآتها وسريرها وملابسها, لكنّي لم اجدها.”
• “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
• “Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.”
• “Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.”
• “Die Einsicht eines Menschen verleiht ihre Flügel keinem anderen.”
• “We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”
• “Behind the veil of each night, there is a smiling dawn.”
• “Your daily life is your temple and your religion.”