Top 500 Khalil Gibran Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.”

— Khalil Gibran

52. “There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.”

— Khalil Gibran

53. “Defeat, my defeat, my deathless courage, You and I shall laugh together with the storm, And together we shall dig graves for all that die in us, and we shall stand in the sun with a will, And we shall be dangerous.”

— Khalil Gibran

54. “The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”

— Khalil Gibran

55. “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.”

— Khalil Gibran

56. “The power to Love is God’s greatest gift to man, For it never will be taken from the Blessed one who loves.”

— Khalil Gibran

57. “Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.”

— Khalil Gibran

58. “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.”

— Khalil Gibran

59. “A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”

— Khalil Gibran

60. “Remembrance is a form of meeting.”

— Khalil Gibran

61. “Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”

— Khalil Gibran

62. “If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?”

— Khalil Gibran

63. “Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart...”

— Khalil Gibran

64. “Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.”

— Khalil Gibran

65. “When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.”

— Khalil Gibran

66. “The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.”

— Khalil Gibran

67. “In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”

— Khalil Gibran

68. “It was in my heart to help a little because I was helped much.”

— Khalil Gibran

69. “The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness...”

— Khalil Gibran

70. “There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.”

— Khalil Gibran

71. “Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.”

— Khalil Gibran

72. “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.”

— Khalil Gibran

73. “When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.”

— Khalil Gibran

74. “True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does. Anonymous Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.”

— Khalil Gibran

75. “I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom; I am in comfort, I am in peace.”

— Khalil Gibran

76. “It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.”

— Khalil Gibran

77. “What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.”

— Khalil Gibran

78. “Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”

— Khalil Gibran

79. “My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.”

— Khalil Gibran

80. “But memory is an autumn leaf that murmurs a while in the wind and then is heard no more.”

— Khalil Gibran

81. “Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.”

— Khalil Gibran

82. “Even while the Earth sleeps we travel.”

— Khalil Gibran

83. “We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.”

— Khalil Gibran

84. “Limited love asks for possession of the beloved, but the unlimited asks only for itself.”

— Khalil Gibran

85. “March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.”

— Khalil Gibran

86. “Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.”

— Khalil Gibran

87. “For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.”

— Khalil Gibran

88. “I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.”

— Khalil Gibran

89. “When a man’s hand touches the hand of a woman, they both touch the heart of eternity.”

— Khalil Gibran

90. “One may not reach the dawn save by path of night.”

— Khalil Gibran

91. “I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.”

— Khalil Gibran

92. “Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.”

— Khalil Gibran

93. “Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.”

— Khalil Gibran

94. “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.”

— Khalil Gibran

95. “The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul.”

— Khalil Gibran

96. “I had a second birth when my soul and my body loved one another and were married.”

— Khalil Gibran

97. “Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.”

— Khalil Gibran

98. “The true wealth of a nation lies not in it’s gold or silver but in it’s learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its sons.”

— Khalil Gibran

99. “Say not, I have found the path of the soul Say rather, I have met the soul walking upon my path.”

— Khalil Gibran

100. “To belittle, you have to be little.”

— Khalil Gibran