Quotes by Khalil Gibran

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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; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

Khalil Gibran

If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.

Khalil Gibran

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Khalil Gibran

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

Khalil Gibran

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

Khalil Gibran

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

Khalil Gibran

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

Khalil Gibran

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

Khalil Gibran

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Khalil Gibran

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Khalil Gibran

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Khalil Gibran

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

Khalil Gibran

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Khalil Gibran

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

Khalil Gibran

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

Khalil Gibran

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Khalil Gibran

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

Khalil Gibran

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Khalil Gibran

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Khalil Gibran

You have your ideology and I have mine.

Khalil Gibran

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

Khalil Gibran