90 Khalil Gibran Quotes on Love, Life and Inner Peace
Looking for some beautiful and inspiring quotes by Khalil Gibran? We have rounded up the top 100 Khalil Gibran quotes and sayings (with images and pictures) that depict his deep views and thoughts regarding love, marriage, children, life – death, wisdom, dreams, success, and more.
Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) was a Lebanese artist, poet, and writer. Before 1918, most of Gibran’s writing had been in Arabic, but after he published ‘The Madman’ with Alfred A. Knopf in 1918, he began to publish in English. Gibran subsequently published his best-known novel, “The Prophet”, a collection of twenty-six poetic essays.
Typically, Gibran’s writing focuses on Christianity and the theme of spiritual love. His book, The Prophet, is an early example of inspirational fiction including a series of philosophical essays.
Khalil Gibran is the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu. Here is a classic collection of the most inspiring Best Khalil Gibran quotations about love, life, work, and marriage for you, which beautifully decodes life in its purest form.
Beautiful Khalil Gibran Quotes on Love & Friendship
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- “Love is trembling happiness.”
- “Love is the veil between lover and lover.”
- “Let there be spaces in your togetherness.”
- “Your friend is your needs answered.” – Khalil Gibran
- “Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.”
- “Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.”
- “Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
- “Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”
- “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
- “Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.”
- “The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.”
- “Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.”
- “Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.”
- “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
- He alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.
- “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.”
- “And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
- “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.”
- “Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons.”
- “When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”
- If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom? – Khalil Gibran
- “If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.”
- “A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.”
- “Give and Take… For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy.”
- “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.”
- “Every man loves two women; the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born.”
- “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.”
- “You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.” ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
- “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.”
- 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.
- “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. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. 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, The Prophet
- “Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless? And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the center of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds?”
- “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
- “Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.”
- “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.”
- Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy; And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.”
- “Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself, Love possesses not nor would it be possessed: For love is sufficient unto love.”
- “In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.” ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
- “Love is trembling happiness.”
Wise Khalil Gibran Quotes on Life
- “To belittle, you have to be little.”
- Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.”
- “We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.”
- “For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?”
- “We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”
- “If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.” – Khalil Gibran
- “Trust in dreams, for in them is the hidden gate to eternity.”
- “The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.”
- “Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.”
- “Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”
- “Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.” – Khalil Gibran
- “You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.”
- “To be able to look back upon one’s life in satisfaction, is to live twice.” – Khalil Gibran
- “If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.”
- “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.” – Khalil Gibran
- “God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.” – Khalil Gibran
- “When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.”
- “If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.”
- “If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.” – Khalil Gibran
- “We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.”
- “Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”
- “For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.”
- “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.”
- “Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”
- “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.”
- “For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”
- “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
- “And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
- “I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.”
- My house says to me, “do not leave me, for here dwells your past.” And the road says to me, “Come and follow me, for I am your future.” And I say to both my house and the road, “I have no past, nor have I a future. If I stay here, there is a going in my staying; and if I go there is a staying in my going. Only love and death change all things.” Khalil Gibran
- “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.”
- “I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.”
Deep Khalil Gibran Quotes on Marriage
- “Let there be spaces in your togetherness.”
- “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
- “Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.”
- “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.”
- No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.
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Thoughtful Khalil Gibran Quotes on Friendship, Silence, Beauty, Music & More
“Your friend is your needs answered.”
“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
“Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.”
“Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.”
Quotes From Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet
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