Famous Quotes & Sayings

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'.

Narendra Modi

Buddha is the crown jewel of the Indian nation which accepts all ways of worship of all religions. This quality of Hinduism in India was a product of many great spiritual masters chief among them was Buddha. And this is what sustains the secular character of India.

Narendra Modi

I see Lord Buddha doing to our collective spiritual well-being what global trade did to our collective economic well-being and the digital internet did to our collective intellectual well-being.

Napoleon Hill

The two roads that lead to poverty and riches travel in opposite directions. If you want riches, you must refuse to accept any circumstance that leads to poverty. (The word riches is here used in its broadest sense, meaning financial, spiritual, mental, and material estates).

Napoleon Hill

FAITH is the head chemist of the mind. When FAITH is blended with the vibration of thought, the subconscious mind instantly picks up the vibration, translates it into its spiritual equivalent, and transmits it to Infinite Intelligence, as in the case of prayer.

Napoleon Hill

Strength, both physical and spiritual, is the product of struggle!

Lois McMaster Bujold

In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation. Scientific knowledge, on the other hand, can often stay abstract and theoretical. Thus most of today’s physicists do not seem to realize the philosophical, cultural and spiritual implications of their theories.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.

Ludacris

Spiritual is hooked up to the invisible umbilical cord of my Lord, Kumbiya.

Luciano Berio

The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

Lord Byron

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine.