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Kahlil Gibran is one of the voices that reminds us that words can carry both beauty and deep insight. He wrote about love, life’s mysteries, and the human longing for meaning. When we share his quotes, we share poetry, reflection, and inspiration for a more mindful life.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather what he does not say.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream

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

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair

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

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

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

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

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

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

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

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 b

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.

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.

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

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

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.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

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?

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.

If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.

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.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

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

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

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

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

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.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

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.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

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

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Love is trembling happiness.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

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

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

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

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

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 love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

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.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

You have your ideology and I have mine.

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

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

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

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

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

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

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.

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

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.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.