70 Khalil Gibran Quotes About Life and Inner Peace

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.

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

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.

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

You have walked among us a spirit, and your shadow has been a light upon our faces.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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