70 Khalil Gibran Quotes About Life and Inner Peace

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Exchange the laughter of heart for the fortunes of the multitudes.

You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

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

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.