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

Khalil Gibran

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.

Khalil Gibran

We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.

Khalil 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.

Khalil Gibran

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

Khalil 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.

Khalil Gibran

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

Khalil Gibran

Love is trembling happiness.

Khalil Gibran

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Khalil Gibran

The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

Khalil Gibran

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Khalil Gibran

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

Khalil Gibran

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Khalil Gibran

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

Khalil Gibran

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.

Khalil Gibran

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

Khalil 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.

Khalil Gibran

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

Khalil Gibran

A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.

Khalil Gibran