Kahlil Gibran, (1883-1931), Lebanese-American philosophical essayist, novelist, mystical poet, and artist Quotes

The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy.

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.

I have learned silence from the talkative; tolerance from the intolerant; and kindness from the unkind.

Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

All you have shall some day be given; therefore, give now that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritor's.

Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do.

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.

Verily, the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.