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Kahlil Gibran Quotes

«Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.»
«The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.»
«Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.»
«The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness»
«Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.»
«The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.»
«I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.»
«But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully.»
«Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?»
«When life life does not find a singer to sing her heart, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind»