Inspirational Quotes by Khalil Gibran — Words of Wisdom for Daily Success

“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.”

“Im Hain des Tempels und im Schatten der Zitadelle habe ich die Freiesten unter euch ihre Freiheit als Joch und Handschellen tragen sehen.”

“I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.”

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

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

“I am forever walking upon these shores,”

“My house says to me, "Do not leave me, for here dwells your past.”

“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?”

“On Pleasure”

“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts;”

“When you part from your friend, you grieve not;”

“Love one another, but make not a bond of love:”

“It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one to understand it.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended,”

“He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.”

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

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... 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”

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

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

“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.”