Famous Quotes & Sayings

Khalil Gibran

Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman....

Khalil Gibran

The truly good is he who is one with all those who are deemed bad.

Khalil Gibran

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

Khalil Gibran

I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.

Khalil Gibran

Say not, I have found the path of the soul Say rather, I have met the soul walking upon my path.

Khalil Gibran

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

Khalil Gibran

We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.

Khalil Gibran

He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering.

Khalil Gibran

You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.

Khalil Gibran

No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.

Khalil Gibran

Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure. Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful.

Khalil Gibran

Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who say every sort of wicked thing about me because I sacrificed their friendship to gain my own soul. I left the dark paths of their duplicity and turned my eyes toward the light where there is salvation, truth, and justice. They have exiled me now from their society, yet I am content. Mankind only exiles the one whose large spirit rebels against injustice and tyranny. He who does not prefer exile to servility is not free in the true and necessary sense of freedom.

Khalil Gibran

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

Khalil Gibran

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

Khalil Gibran

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Khalil Gibran

There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.

Khalil Gibran

Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.

Khalil Gibran

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.

Khalil Gibran

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

Khalil Gibran

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

Khalil Gibran

To belittle, you have to be little.

Khalil Gibran

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

Khalil Gibran

Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.

Khalil Gibran

You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.

The physical world is too good a gift to be reduced to an object lesson about 'spiritual things'.

Jonathan Sacks

Just as the natural environment depends on biodiversity, so the human environment depends on cultural diversity, because no one civilization encompasses all the spiritual, ethical and artistic expressions of mankind.

Helen Fisher

There's biology in everything, even when you're feeling spiritual.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

A soul who is not close to nature is far away from what is called spirituality. In order to be spiritual one must communicate, and especially one must communicate with nature; one must feel nature.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

It is through this physical body that the highest and greatest purpose of life is achieved. A person only calls it the physical body in ignorance. Once the knowledge has come...he begins to look upon it as the sacred temple of God.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

When we are face to face with truth, the point of view of Krishna, Buddha, Christ, or any other Prophet, is the same. When we look at life from the top of the mountain, there is no limitation; there is the same immensity.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Things of heaven cannot be obtained by perseverance; they are the grace of God. To open to this and trust in it is how belief is crystallized into faith. We cannot pay for it in any form, in any way, by our goodness, by our piety, by our great qualities, merits, or virtues; nothing. It is a gift, and all we can do is receive it.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

It is the peaceful one who is observant. It is peace that gives him the power to observe keenly. It is the peaceful one, therefore, who can conceive, for peace helps him to conceive. It is the peaceful who can contemplate; one who has no peace cannot contemplate properly. Therefore, all things pertaining to spiritual progress in life depend upon peace.