Kahlil Gibran

11 Quotes

Quotes by Kahlil Gibran

1

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

2

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

3

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.

4

Love is quivering happiness.

5

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were

6

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

7

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

8

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

9

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

10

Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.

11

Travel and tell no one, live a true story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.