110+ Kahlil Gibran Quotes On Death, Marriage And Work

Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese artist, poet, and writer. He is best known for his book The Prophet, a collection of 26 poetic essays. He is considered one of the most important literary figures of the 20th century in the Arab world. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Kahlil Gibran on love, death, life.

Top 10 Kahlil Gibran Quotes

1. One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
2. If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
3. And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
4. If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
5. Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
6. The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
7. And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.
8. Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.
9. 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.
10. Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Kahlil Gibran Image Quotes

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. — Kahlil Gibran

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention. — Kahlil Gibran

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. — Kahlil Gibran

We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision. — Kahlil Gibran

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. — Kahlil Gibran

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. — Kahlil Gibran

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

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

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. — Kahlil Gibran

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom? — Kahlil Gibran

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

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. — Kahlil Gibran

Love is trembling happiness. — Kahlil Gibran

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

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

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. — Kahlil Gibran

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow. — Kahlil Gibran

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. — Kahlil Gibran

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. — Kahlil Gibran

Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood. — Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran Short Quotes

• We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
• How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.
• Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
• We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
• There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
• Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
• Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
• The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.
• If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.
• Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Kahlil Gibran Quotes About Love

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were. — Kahlil Gibran

Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons — Kahlil Gibran

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. — Kahlil Gibran

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. — Kahlil Gibran

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. — Kahlil Gibran

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. — Kahlil Gibran

The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness. He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly — Kahlil Gibran

Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another. — Kahlil Gibran

Love is trembling happiness. — Kahlil Gibran

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. — Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran Quotes About Death

Love is timeless.... Death does not separate the lover from the beloved. — Kahlil Gibran

In the depths of your hopes and desires, lies your silent knowledge of the beyond, and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. — Kahlil Gibran

When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. — Kahlil Gibran

For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. — Kahlil Gibran

When you are sorrowful, look again. — Kahlil Gibran

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

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life. — Kahlil Gibran

Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains. — Kahlil Gibran

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death. — Kahlil Gibran

Only love and death will change all things. — Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran Quotes About Life

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

Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life. — Kahlil Gibran

He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection. — Kahlil Gibran

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. — Kahlil Gibran

Work is love made visible. — Kahlil Gibran

Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness — Kahlil Gibran

The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves. — Kahlil Gibran

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path. — Kahlil Gibran

When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. — Kahlil Gibran

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. — Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran Quotes About Marriage

Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course. — Kahlil Gibran

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow. — Kahlil Gibran

Let there be spaces in your togetherness — Kahlil Gibran

Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity. — Kahlil Gibran

Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. — Kahlil Gibran

Love one another, but make not a bond of love. — Kahlil Gibran

Love is the veil between lover and lover. — Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran Quotes About Work

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. — Kahlil Gibran

Rest in reason. Move in Passion. — Kahlil Gibran

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? — Kahlil Gibran

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. — Kahlil Gibran

All work is empty save when there is love. — Kahlil Gibran

When you are born, your work is placed in your heart. — Kahlil Gibran

And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God. — Kahlil Gibran

Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love. — Kahlil Gibran

Work is love made visable. — Kahlil Gibran

Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. — Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran Quotes About Child

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

The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remain hovering over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves. I am one of those who remembers those places regardless of distance or time. — Kahlil Gibran

You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. — 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

The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation. — Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran Quotes About Hope

The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up the paths of mankind. For in one soul are contained the hopes and feelings of all Mankind. — Kahlil Gibran

My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties. — Kahlil Gibran

In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond. — Kahlil Gibran

There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence of a virgin's spirit into a perpetual awareness that makes a person forget the past, for it kindles fiercely in the heart the sweet and overwhelming hope of the coming future. — Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran Quotes About Strength

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. — Kahlil Gibran

I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength. — Kahlil Gibran

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions. — Kahlil Gibran

The very strength that protects the heart from injury is the strength that prevents the heart from enlarging to its intended greatness within. The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven. — Kahlil Gibran

He was gentle, like a man mindful of his own strength. In my dreams I beheld the kings of the earth standing in awe in His presence. — Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran Quotes About Peace

I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop. — Kahlil Gibran

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts. — Kahlil Gibran

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered. — Kahlil Gibran

Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace. — Kahlil Gibran

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts. — Kahlil Gibran

But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. — Kahlil Gibran

You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth. — Kahlil Gibran

I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom; I am in comfort, I am in peace. — Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran Quotes About Spiritual

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense. — Kahlil Gibran

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. — Kahlil Gibran

Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood. — Kahlil Gibran

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you. — Kahlil Gibran

When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty. — Kahlil Gibran

Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure. Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful. — Kahlil Gibran

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain. — Kahlil Gibran

Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent. — Kahlil Gibran

To belittle, you have to be little. — Kahlil Gibran

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness. — Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran Quotes About Heart

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

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. — Kahlil Gibran

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. — Kahlil Gibran

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom? — Kahlil Gibran

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. — Kahlil Gibran

In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a shining dawn. — Kahlil Gibran

Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came to make the human heart a temple, and the soul an altar, and the mind a priest. — 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

Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart. — Kahlil Gibran

Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. — Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran Quotes About Truth

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

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of people's wrath. — Kahlil Gibran

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper. — Kahlil Gibran

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

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert. — Kahlil Gibran

Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for the sake of the Truth? It is our inner selves that hurt us when we disobey it, and it kills us when we betray it. — Kahlil Gibran

Everyone has experienced that truth: that love, like a running brook, is disregarded, taken for granted; but when the brook freezes over, then people begin to remember how it was when it ran, and they want it to run again. — Kahlil Gibran

Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth. — Kahlil Gibran

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper. — Kahlil Gibran

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

Kahlil Gibran Quotes About Wisdom

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. — Kahlil Gibran

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. — Kahlil Gibran

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. — Kahlil Gibran

God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind. — Kahlil Gibran

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes. — Kahlil Gibran

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain... When you are joyous look deep into your heart and you will find that it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. — Kahlil Gibran

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. — Kahlil Gibran

Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse. — Kahlil Gibran

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

The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness. — Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran Famous Quotes And Sayings

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. — Kahlil Gibran

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention. — Kahlil Gibran

If I could take your troubles I would toss them into the sea, But all these things I'm finding Are impossible for me. I cannot build a mountain Or catch a rainbow fair, But let me be what I know best, A friend that is always there. — Kahlil Gibran

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. — Kahlil Gibran

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. — Kahlil Gibran

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

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. — Kahlil Gibran

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. — Kahlil Gibran

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

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

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

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom? — Kahlil Gibran

We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. — Kahlil Gibran

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

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. — Kahlil Gibran

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. — Kahlil Gibran

Love is trembling happiness. — Kahlil Gibran

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

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve. — Kahlil Gibran

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. — Kahlil Gibran

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

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. — Kahlil Gibran

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking. — Kahlil Gibran

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence. — Kahlil Gibran

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow. — Kahlil Gibran

You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done. — Kahlil Gibran

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. — Kahlil Gibran

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. — Kahlil Gibran

All things in this creation exist within you and all things in you exist in creation; there is no border between you and the closest things, and there is no distance between you and the farthest things, and all things, from the lowest to the loftiest, from the smallest to the greatest, are within you as equal things. — Kahlil Gibran

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires. — Kahlil Gibran

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. — Kahlil Gibran

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? — Kahlil Gibran

Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood. — Kahlil Gibran

Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow. — Kahlil Gibran

You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free! — Kahlil Gibran

Work is love made visible. — Kahlil Gibran

Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares. — Kahlil Gibran

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. — Kahlil Gibran

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. — Kahlil Gibran

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife. — Kahlil Gibran

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility. — Kahlil Gibran

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky. — Kahlil Gibran

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration. — Kahlil Gibran

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. — Kahlil Gibran

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without. — Kahlil Gibran

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

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

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master. — Kahlil Gibran

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. — Kahlil Gibran

Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf. — Kahlil Gibran

Life Lessons by Kahlil Gibran

1. Kahlil Gibran encourages us to be true to ourselves and to live life with passion and purpose. He teaches us to appreciate the beauty of life and to always strive for balance and harmony.
2. He reminds us to be kind and compassionate to others, to be humble and to be grateful for all the blessings we have in life.
3. He encourages us to be open to new ideas and to always strive to make the world a better place by being a positive force in our lives and in the lives of those around us.