70 Khalil Gibran Quotes About Life and Inner Peace

There are those who have the truth within them, but they tell it not in words.

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?

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.

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

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

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

Love is the rest of the body in the quiet of the grave, the tranquility of the soul in the depth of eternity.

Destiny comes suddenly, bringing concern.

Your reason and your passions are the rudders and the sails of your seafaring soul.

Follow your heart. Your heart is the right guide in everything big

Words are too poor and too scant to express the inmost feeling in the heart of man.

You are good when you are one with yourself.

Life is indeed darkness save when there is the urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love.

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

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

Memory is an autumn leaf that murmurs a while in the wind and then is heard no more.

Let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness / And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

To be able to look back upon one’s life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

God opens the doors of truth to him who knocks with the hand of faith