The 30 bast Inspiring Kahlil Gibran Quotes

 

Here are 30 profound and inspiring quotes by Kahlil Gibran:

1. "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."

2. "Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."

3. "You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts."

4. "Love is not a mere sentiment. Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation."

5. "The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."

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

7. "The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me."

8. "We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side."

9. "We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without."

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

11. "In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."

12. "Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof."

13. "Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity."

14. "Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."

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

16. "We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend."

17. "We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."

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

19. "Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."

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

21. "I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us."

22. "Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."

23. "Kindness is like snow—it beautifies everything it covers."

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

25. "The timeless beauty of the natural world is a reminder of the eternal truths that lie within us all."

26. "If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."

27. "Life is an island in an ocean of loneliness, an island whose rocks are hopes, whose trees are dreams, whose flowers are solitude, and whose brooks are thirst."

28. "You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."

29. "Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."

30. "Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life, bringing peace, abolishing strife."