More Quotes by Khalil Gibran
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.
If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.
Behind the veil of each night, there is a smilling dawn.
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.
Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
The snow and the storm destroy the flower; but its seed they cannot kill.
