Kahlil Gibran
Lebanese-American poet, painter and philosopher, 1883-1931
19 quotes.
Quotes by Kahlil Gibran
- A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.
- For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger.
- Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
- Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
- I would be the least among men with dreams and the desire to fulfill them, rather than the greatest with no dreams and no desires.
- One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
- Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower. Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved.
- The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
- The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
- Then said a rich man, Speak to us of Giving. And he answered: You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.
- To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to.
- Work is love made visible.
- You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
- You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
- 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.
- Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
- Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.