Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf. Khalil Gibran More Quotes by Khalil Gibran More Quotes From Khalil Gibran The first glance from the eyes of the beloved is like the spirit that moved upon the face of the waters, giving birth to heaven and earth. Khalil Gibran eye giving water God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips. Khalil Gibran lips science religion And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also. For what is your friend that your should seek with him hours to kill? Seek with him always hours to live. For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness. And in the sweetness of friendship, let there be laughter, and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. Khalil Gibran laughter morning fun All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors. Khalil Gibran humor helping-others kindness 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 flower condolences sympathy A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue. Khalil Gibran truth secret love A root is a flower that disdains fame. Khalil Gibran flower roots inspirational I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward. Khalil Gibran wisdom spiritual life My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love what the people abhor and to show good will toward the one they hate. It showed me that Love is a property not of the lover but of the beloved. Before my Soul taught me, Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs, but now it has been transformed into a halo; its first is its last, and its last is its first. It encompasses every being, slowly expanding to embrace all that ever will be. Khalil Gibran hate teaching life 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 alive eye looks The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention. Khalil Gibran inspiring motivational inspirational But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Khalil Gibran marriage dance love 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 good-morning inspirational friendship Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard. Khalil Gibran ignorant foolish arguing Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf. For in that day you shall know the hidden purposes in all things. And you shall bless darkness as you would bless light. Khalil Gibran regret light darkness The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard. Khalil Gibran our-lives unseen life No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. Khalil Gibran wisdom wise inspirational Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms. Khalil Gibran wisdom self mother 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 spiritual men life You often say ; I would give , but only to the deserving, The trees in your orchard say not so , nor the flocks in your pasture. Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and nights is worthy of all else from you. And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream. See first that youyourself deserve to be a giver , and an insturument of giving. For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you , who deem yourself a giver , is but a witness. Khalil Gibran ocean giving night
