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Khalil Gibran Quotes - Page 22

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My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the

My friend, be not like him who sits by his fireside and watches the fire go out, then blows vainly upon the dead ashes. Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties.

Giving Up, Acceptance, Blow

Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Inspirational, Spiritual, Blood

Those to whom worshiping is a window, to open but also to shut, have not yet visited the house of their souls whose windows are open from dawn to dawn.

House, Soul, Dawn

And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.

Past, Remembrance, Longing

Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.100, Lulu.com

When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, "Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful.

Heart, Men, Compassion

Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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

Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

Love is quivering happiness.

Love, Love Is

Happiness is a myth we seek, If manifested surely irks; Like river speeding to the plain, On its arrival slows and murks. For man is happy only in His aspiration to the heights; When he attains his goal, he cools And longs for other distant flights.

Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence of a virgin's spirit into a perpetual awareness that makes a person forget the past, for it kindles fiercely in the heart the sweet and overwhelming hope of the coming future.

Beautiful, Sweet, Heart

Khalil Gibran “Khalil The Heretic”, Library of Alexandria

The human heart cries out for help; the human soul implores us for deliverance; but we do not heed their cries, for we neither hear nor understand. But the man who hears and understands we call mad, and flee from him. Thus the nights pass, and we live in unawareness; and the days greet us and embrace us. But we live in constant dread of day and night.

Heart, Night, Men

In every aspect of the day Jesus was aware of the Father. He beheld Him in the clouds and in the shadows of the clouds that pass over the earth.

Jesus, Father, Clouds

Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

The saint and the sinner are twin brothers...one was born but the moment before the other.

Brother, Judgement, Saint

A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption.

Spiritual, World, May

Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is a basic law, we are all one before it. He who disdains the mean is himself mean. He who vaunts his scorn of the sinful vaunts his disdain of all humanity.

Mean, Men, Court Judges

Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

Sick, Tolerance, Haughtiness

Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement. They should remember their pleasures with gratitude, as they would the harvest of a summer.

Summer, Gratitude, Regret

Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.114, Lulu.com

I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.

Lying, Self, Matter

Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf. For in that day you shall know the hidden purposes in all things. And you shall bless darkness as you would bless light.

Regret, Light, Darkness

Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it.

Eye, Clouds, Hands

Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears listening to the silence and its choirs singing the hymns of time, intoning the praises of the firmament, revealing the secrets of the invisible.

Inspiration, Hymns, Addiction

And you receivers - and you are all receivers - assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives. Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings; For to be overmindful of your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has the free hearted earth for mother, and God for father.

Mother, Gratitude, Father

Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.

Men, Guilt, Weakness

"The Voice of the Master". Book by Khalil Gibran. Translated by Anthony R. Ferris, 1958.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

Rivers, Silence, Drink

Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.128, Lulu.com

In friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures.

Friendship, Laughter, True Friend

Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

I would tell you more of Him, but how shall I? When love becomes vast love becomes wordless. And when memory is overladen it seeks the silent deep.

Memories, Love Is, Silent

Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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