Khalil Gibran

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Khalil Gibran

Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.

Khalil Gibran

Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

Khalil Gibran

Work is love made visible. 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.

Khalil Gibran

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

Khalil Gibran

You are far, far greater than you know – and all is well.

Khalil Gibran

You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time.

Khalil Gibran

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Khalil Gibran

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

Khalil Gibran

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.

Khalil Gibran