More Quotes by Khalil Gibran
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
I do not want you to hear that I LOVE you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say.
Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came to make the human heart a temple, and the soul an altar, and the mind a priest.
How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.
When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.
The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
In the depths of your hopes and desires, lies your silent knowledge of the beyond, and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
