Khalil Gibran Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. The Prophet

2. Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

3. Darkness may hide the treesand the flowers from the eyesbut it cannot hidelove from the soul. Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran

4. For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended,is a flame that burns to its own destruction. The Prophet

5. He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both. The Prophet

6. I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

7. Ihr redet, wenn ihr aufhört mit euren Gedanken in Frieden zu sein.

8. 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.

9. It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one to understand it. Sand and Foam

10. Je tiefer sich das Leid in euer Sein eingräbt, desto mehr Freude könnt ihr fassen.

11. 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. The Prophet

12. Love one another, but make not a bond of love:Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. The Prophet

13. No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. The Prophet

14. 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.

15. They say: 'If a man knew himself,he would know all mankind.'I say: 'If a man loved mankind,he would know something of himself. Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran

16. Wenn [der Lehrer] wirklich weise ist, fordert er euch nicht auf, ins Haus seiner Weisheit einzutreten, sondern führt euch an die Schwelle eures eigenen Geistes.

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

18. [I]st nicht die Zeit wie die Liebe, ungeteilt und ungezügelt?

19. Behind the veil of each night, there is a smiling dawn.

20. Der Lehrer [...] gibt nicht von seiner Weisheit, sondern eher von seinem Glauben und seiner Liebe.

21. Love one another, but make not a bond of love:Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. The Prophet

22. Niemand kann euch etwas eröffnen, das nicht schon im Dämmern eures Wissens schlummert.

23. No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The Prophet

24. No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. The Prophet

25. On PleasurePleasure is a freedom-song,But it is not freedom.It is the blossoming of your desires,But it is not their fruit.It is a depth calling unto a height,But it is not the deep nor the high.It is the caged taking wing,But it is not space encompassed.Aye, in very truth, pleasure is a freedom-song.And I fain would have you sing it with fullness of heart; yet I would not have you lose your hearts in the singing.Some of your youth seek pleasure as if it were all, and they are judgedand rebuked.I would not judge nor rebuke them. I would have them seek.For they shall find pleasure, but not her alone;Seven are her sisters, and the least of them is more beautiful thanpleasure.Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for rootsand found a treasure?And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongscommitted in drunkenness.But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement.They should remember their pleasures with gratitude, as they wouldthe harvest of a summer.Yet if it comforts them to regret, let them be comforted.And there are among you those who are neither young to seek nor oldto remember;And in their fear of seeking and remembering they shun all pleasures,lest they neglect the spirit or offend against it.But even in their foregoing is their pleasure.And thus they too find a treasure though they dig for roots with quiveringhands.But tell me, who is he that can offend the spirit?Shall the nightingale offend the stillness of the night, or the firefly thestars?And shall your flame or your smoke burden the wind?Think you the spirit is a still pool which you can trouble with a staff?Oftentimes in denying yourself pleasure you do but store the desire inthe recesses of your being.Who knows but that which seems omitted today, waits for tomorrow?Even your body knows its heritage and its rightful need and will notbe deceived.And your body is the harp of your soul,And it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.And now you ask in your heart, How shall we distinguish that whichis good in pleasure from that which is not good?Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is thepleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower,But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee.For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life,And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love,And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasureis a need and an ecstasy. The Prophet

26. Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.

27. Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. Sand and Foam

28. Schönheit ist Ewigkeit, die sich in einem Spiegel anschaut. - Aber ihr seid die Ewigkeit, und ihr seid der Spiegel.

29. The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul. The Prophet

30. 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. The Prophet