Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing; And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.
—Kahlil Gibran
Topics: Reason, Instincts, Love
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.
—Kahlil Gibran
Topics: Knowledge
Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
—Kahlil Gibran
The appearance of things change according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.
—Kahlil Gibran
Topics: Emotions
To belittle is to be little.
—Kahlil Gibran
Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.
—Kahlil Gibran
Topics: Goodness, Deeds, Good Deeds
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
—Kahlil Gibran
Topics: Art
We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.
—Kahlil Gibran
Topics: Power
And think not you can Direct the course of love, For love, If it finds you worthy, Directs your course
—Kahlil Gibran
Topics: Romance
What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?
—Kahlil Gibran
Topics: Patriotism
Every thought I have imprisioned in expression I must free by my deeds.
—Kahlil Gibran
Topics: Action
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
—Kahlil Gibran
Topics: Adversity, Difficulties, The Mind
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
—Kahlil Gibran
Topics: Faith
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
—Kahlil Gibran
Topics: Light, One liners, Beauty
Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.
—Kahlil Gibran
Topics: Words, Wisdom, One liners
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
—Kahlil Gibran
Topics: Progress
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
—Kahlil Gibran
Topics: Wisdom
If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
—Kahlil Gibran
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
—Kahlil Gibran
Topics: Mind, Achievement, Heart, Understanding, Achieve, Accomplishment
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
—Kahlil Gibran
Topics: Trust
Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country?
—Kahlil Gibran
Topics: Service
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
—Kahlil Gibran
Topics: Crying, Perspective, Joy, Sympathy
An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.
—Kahlil Gibran
Topics: Truth, Exaggeration
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
—Kahlil Gibran
Topics: Equality, Legacy
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him, you will always remember.
—Kahlil Gibran
Topics: Forgiveness
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.
—Kahlil Gibran
Topics: Love
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
—Kahlil Gibran
Topics: Spirit, One liners, Liberty
Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of seasons.
—Kahlil Gibran
Topics: Love
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
—Kahlil Gibran
Topics: Desire, Humility, Modesty
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.
—Kahlil Gibran
Topics: Wisdom
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