Kahlil Gibran Quotes and Sayings

1. Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.
    
2. No longing remains unfulfilled.
    
3. What difference does it make, whether you live in a big city or in a community of homes ? The real life is within.
    
4. The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.
    
5. It is the mind in us that yields to the laws made by us, but never the spirit in us.
    
6. He who would share your pleasure but not your pain shall lose the key to one of the seven gates of Paradise.
    
7. Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; is the second, then you are an oasis in a desert.
    
8. If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
    
9. There is neither religion nor science beyond beauty.
    
10. When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, I am in the heart of God."
     
11. You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
     
12. The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness,
    And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
    And that that which sings and contemplates in you
    is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment
    which scattered the stars into space.
    Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless?