Kahlil Gibran Quotes

“He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.”
― Kahlil Gabran

“The resting place of my soul is a beautiful grove where my knowledge of you lives.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Beloved Prophet: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell, and Her Private Journal

“Your inner thighs like the petals of a newly opened lily
Long, smooth and sensually captivating
Drawing me into the center of the flower”
― Bill Weber, Choosing Me: Love Letters from a Poet, Volume 1

“You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link.
This is but half the truth.
You are also as strong as your strongest link.
To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam.
To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.
Aye, you are like an ocean,
And though heavy-grounded ships await the tide upon your shores, yet, even like an ocean, you cannot hasten your tides.
And like the seasons you are also,
And though in your winter you deny your spring,
Yet spring, reposing within you, smiles in her drowsiness and is not offended.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. But it is night that raises them to the stars.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Garden of The Prophet

“He suffered much, but he understood the mystery of pain: he knew that tears make all things shine.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Beloved Prophet: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell, and Her Private Journal

“I hope I will live long and be able to do some things worthy of giving to you who is giving so much to me.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Beloved Prophet: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell, and Her Private Journal

“ABOUT: KAHLIL GIBRAN

"His power came from some great reservoir of spiritual life else it could not have been so universal and so potent, but the majesty and beauty of the language with which he clothed it were all his own."

-- Claude Bragdon”
― Claude Bragdon

“The professors in the academy say, “Do not make the model more beautiful than she is,” and my soul whispers, “O if you could only paint the model as beautiful as she really is.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Beloved Prophet: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell, and Her Private Journal

“Pleasure is a freedom-song,
But it is not freedom.
It is the blossoming of your desires,
But it is not their fruit.
It is a depth calling unto a height,
But it is not the deep nor the high.
It is the caged taking wing,
But it is not space encompassed.
Aye, in very truth, pleasure is a freedom-song.
And I fain would have you sing it with fullness of heart; yet I would not have you lose your hearts in the singing.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“An old man likes to return in memory to the days of his youth like a stranger who
longs to go back to his own country. He delights to tell stories of the past like a poet who takes pleasure in reciting his best poem. He lives spiritually in the past because the present passes swiftly, and the future seems to him an approach to the oblivion of the grave. An hour full of old memories passed like the shadows of the trees over the grass”
― Kahlil Gibran

“That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined.
Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones?
And is it not a dream which none of you re member having dreamt, that built your city and fashioned all there is in it?
Could you but see the tides of that breath you would cease to see all else,
And if you could hear the whispering of the dream you would hear no other sound.
But you do not see, nor do you hear, and it is well.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Arti penting manusia
bukan terletak pada apa yang dia peroleh,
melainkan apa yang sangat ia rindukan
untuk diraih.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Excerpt from "Work"

And if you cannot work
with love
but only with distaste,
it is better that you should leave
your work and sit at
the gate of the temple
and take alms
of those who work with joy.

For if you bake bread
with indifference, you bake
a bitter bread,
that feeds but half man’s hunger.
And if you grudge the crushing
of the grapes,
your grudge distills
a poison
in the wine.

And if you sing though as angels,
and love not the singing,
you muffle man’s ears
to the voices of the day
and the voices
of the night.”
― Kahlil Gibran