Khalil Gibran Quotes

It is good to give when asked; but it is better to give without being asked, like good understanding people.

There must be something strangely sacred in salt: it is in our tears and in the sea.

Your children are not your children: they are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

You don't make progress by improving what is already done, but by striving to achieve what is still left to do.

You can't reach the dawn except by the path of the night.

Your joy is your unmasked sadness.

Working with love is building a house with care, as if your beloved were going to live in that house.

Some listen with their ears, some with their stomach, some with their wallet, and some don't listen at all.

I experienced a second birth when my soul and my body loved each other and got married.

The nightingale refuses to nest in the cage, so that slavery is not the destiny of its offspring.

And in my madness, I found the freedom and security that comes from not being understood, for those who understand us enslave a part of us.

To love life through work is to become intimate with the deepest secret of life.