70 Khalil Gibran Quotes About Life and Inner Peace

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

Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.

Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.

Much of your pain is self-chosen.

He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering.

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

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

Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.

Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

Madness is the first step towards unselfishness.

Only love and death, are capable of changing everything.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

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

You may judge others only according to your knowledge of yourself.

The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means.

Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons.

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