70 Khalil Gibran Quotes About Life and Inner Peace

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

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

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

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

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

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

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.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

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.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

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 been your delight.

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

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

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.

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

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

The desire for certain pleasures is a part of the pain.

Love and Doubt are not on speaking terms

It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

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