Kahlil Gibran Quotes

You often say ; I would give , but only to the deserving, The trees in your orchard say not so , nor the flocks in your pasture.Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and nights is worthy of all else from you.And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream. See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver , and an instrument of giving.For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you , who deem yourself a giver , is but a witness.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed?See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.

~ Kahlil Gibran

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; And to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.

~ Kahlil Gibran

You often say, “I would give, but only to the deserving.”The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

~ Kahlil Gibran

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

~ Kahlil Gibran

You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.

~ Kahlil Gibran

There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering?And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn?

~ Kahlil Gibran

In the summer heat the reapers say, “We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Fear not the phantom of death, My Countrymen, for his greatnessAnd mercy will refuse to approachYour smallness; and dread not the Dagger, for it will decline to beLodged in your shallow hearts.

~ Kahlil Gibran

But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you,So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem

~ Kahlil Gibran

You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps.Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping.For those who limp go not backwards.But you who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.

~ Kahlil Gibran

And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil.And he answered :You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .

~ Kahlil Gibran

Do not blame a person for drinking lest he is trying to forget something more serious than drinking.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.These things move within you as lights and shadows in pairs that cling.And when the shadow fades and is no more, the light that lingers becomes a shadow to another light.And thus your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

~ Kahlil Gibran

He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.

~ Kahlil Gibran

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

~ Kahlil Gibran

A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

~ Kahlil Gibran

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain.

~ Kahlil Gibran

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

~ Kahlil Gibran

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Your daily life is your temple and your religion.

~ Kahlil Gibran

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

~ Kahlil Gibran

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion respect longing patience regret surprise and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

~ Kahlil Gibran