Top 500 Khalil Gibran Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Darkness is dawn not yet born.”

— Khalil Gibran

152. “The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.”

— Khalil Gibran

153. “Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.”

— Khalil Gibran

154. “I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.”

— Khalil Gibran

155. “In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.”

— Khalil Gibran

156. “A word I want to see written on my grave: I am alive like you, and I am standing beside you. Close your eyes and look around, you will see me in front of you.”

— Khalil Gibran

157. “When you are born, your work is placed in your heart.”

— Khalil Gibran

158. “Like the seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.”

— Khalil Gibran

159. “Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.”

— Khalil Gibran

160. “The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.”

— Khalil Gibran

161. “If we were to all sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality.”

— Khalil Gibran

162. “For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”

— Khalil Gibran

163. “It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.”

— Khalil Gibran

164. “The silence of the envious is too noisy.”

— Khalil Gibran

165. “Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

— Khalil Gibran

166. “Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man’s life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?”

— Khalil Gibran

167. “Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.”

— Khalil Gibran

168. “And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.”

— Khalil Gibran

169. “Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.”

— Khalil Gibran

170. “Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.”

— Khalil Gibran

171. “Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist.”

— Khalil Gibran

172. “Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.”

— Khalil Gibran

173. “Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.”

— Khalil Gibran

174. “People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”

— Khalil Gibran

175. “When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.”

— Khalil Gibran

176. “All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand...”

— Khalil Gibran

177. “Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister, and the woman-friend, I would have been sleeping among those who seek the tranquility of the world with their snoring.”

— Khalil Gibran

178. “For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, “Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks.” Thus I became a madman.”

— Khalil Gibran

179. “There is a space between man’s imagination and man’s attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.”

— Khalil Gibran

180. “The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.”

— Khalil Gibran

181. “We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.”

— Khalil Gibran

182. “Love is life sharing, not for hurt, Love is alive both not ambiguous. Love is whole life, not an affair.”

— Khalil Gibran

183. “And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.”

— Khalil Gibran

184. “The biggest thing in today’s sorrow is the memory of yesterday’s joy.”

— Khalil Gibran

185. “All work is empty save when there is love.”

— Khalil Gibran

186. “Should you really open your eyes and see, you would behold your image in all images. And should you open your ears and listen, you would hear your own voice in all voices.”

— Khalil Gibran

187. “A truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.”

— Khalil Gibran

188. “Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me can praise or belittle me. I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one.”

— Khalil Gibran

189. “For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.”

— Khalil Gibran

190. “For love is sufficient unto love.”

— Khalil Gibran

191. “Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.”

— Khalil Gibran

192. “The heart’s affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch; it will suffer but it does not die; it will pour all its vitality into the next branch so that it will grow and fill the empty place.”

— Khalil Gibran

193. “Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.”

— Khalil Gibran

194. “He who denies his heritage, has no heritage.”

— Khalil Gibran

195. “Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower. Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved.”

— Khalil Gibran

196. “Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.”

— Khalil Gibran

197. “Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.”

— Khalil Gibran

198. “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.”

— Khalil Gibran

199. “My God, my aim and my fulfillment; I am thy yesterday and thou are my tomorrow. I am they root in the earth and thou art my flower in the sky, and together we grow before the face of the sun.”

— Khalil Gibran

200. “For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.”

— Khalil Gibran