70 Khalil Gibran Quotes About Life and Inner Peace

When you long for blessings that you may not name, and when you grieve knowing not the cause, then indeed you are growing with all things that grow, and rising toward your greater self.

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.

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?

Love is trembling happiness.

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

The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude.

Qualities of good citizens. Is to admire what others have created in love and faith

There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue

Fear not the phantom of death

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.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

No matter how busy a man is, he is never too busy to stop and talk about how busy he is.

Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.

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

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

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

Imagination sees a complete reality, It is where the past, present, and future meet. Imagination is limited neither to the reality which is apparent - nor to one place. It lives everywhere. It is at a center and feels the vibrations of all the circles within which east and west are virtually included. Imagination is the life of mental freedom. It realizes what everything is in its many aspects. Imagination does not uplift: we don't want to be uplifted, we want to be more completely aware.