FastSaying

For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride?


Kahlil Gibran

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. -Kahlil Gibran.
KAHLIL GIBRAN (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON for PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANN...
WILLIAM J. FEDERER You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. —KAHLIL GIBRAN
LUIS CARLOS MONTALVáN If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The Press will not be free to tell lies. That is not freedom for the people, but a tyranny over thei...
OSWALD MOSLEY If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste...
GARY F EVANS... Ants can carry twenty times their own body weight, which is useful information if you're moving out ...
RON DARIAN The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday
CHRISTOPHER FUDGE is a broken man an outlaw?"

"More or less." Brienne answered.

Septon Meribald ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The summer sun continued to rise in the sky and propel shocks of heat down on the city and the heavy...
HUBERT SELBY JR. I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will...
EDWARD R. MURROW The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is les...
RICHARD M. NIXON Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. -Kahlil Gibran.
KAHLIL GIBRAN As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own sear...
ANTHONY KENNEDY Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
LISA KLEYPAS a victory for our people, for all the free and proud people and for every freedom movement in the wo...
YASSER ARAFAT He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik...
TOBA BETA She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest.
SARAH J. MAAS Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE It's a great pity that things weren't so arranged that an empty head, like an empty stomach, wouldn'...
UNKNOWN We should be ready for a change.
DEYTH BANGER Did you see more glass?
J.D. SALINGER She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ...
J.D. SALINGER But they know how important it was for their own kids. They know how important it was and still is f...
MARY SHAPIRO Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is r...
RANDALL TERRY . . . for righteous monarchs, Justly to judge, with their own eyes should see; To rule o'er fr...
HENRY BROOKE What will make you a star is in you
SOTONYE ANGA If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI Some men believe a girl squirting under their touch is a sign of their own sex appeal and machismo. ...
CHLOE THURLOW What do I look for in a friend?
You!
ANTHONY T.HINCKS Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN You can't give people pride, but you can provide the kind of understanding that makes people look to...
CHARLESZETTA WADDLES We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL If newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w...
PIERCE BROWN Unknown artists, creating what they are told, give their copyrights to the corporations that they wo...
MARIA BROPHY Weird makes you truly sexy in a way the world can never know.
CRAIG GROESCHEL He that is proud eats up himself. Pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud
NEIL GAIMAN How can intemperate minds be free when they're slaves to their own passions?
FRANCINE RIVERS Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I...
JIM MORRISON How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I...
JIM MORRISON What you taken for granted, could mean a lot to another.
ZENG HAN JUN Have & Have Not
SAVAN SOLANKI Students can have great ideas, and they need their freedom to pursue their own ideas.
JEFFREY MOORE The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the ju...
SAINT IGNATIUS When the people have no tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
LORD LYTTON Things have changed a lot since the earth was cooling and I was a teenage girl, but the basics of te...
CANDICE OLSON For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and ...
JOE BIDEN Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom...
MITT ROMNEY This is a free country, and to each their own.
OLIVIA CULPO For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free t...
RONALD REAGAN I remember being in Japan when Destiny's Child put out 'Independent Women,' and women th...
BEYONCE KNOWLES The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their...
LYSANDER SPOONER I cherish my own freedom dearly, but I care even more for your freedom. Too many have died since I w...
NELSON MANDELA For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, ...
CHARLES E. WILSON The mercy that was quick in us but late, By your own counsel is suppressed and killed. You mus...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the inter...
WOODROW WILSON All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who ha...
PLATO Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business c...
CARTER G. WOODSON Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars...
CECILIA LONDON A Hazel é diferente. Ela caminha com leveza, velhote. Caminha com leveza sobre a Terra. A Hazel sab...
JOHN GREEN If there is one thing in this world that I was raised and trained to know, it is that there is only ...
PETER S. BEAGLE If people are given the opportunity to really make a difference in their own lives, their own commun...
ALEX STEFFEN A man’s spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own ...
JEREMY ALDANA Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that’s what he promised ‘em – his virgin daughters, you...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN God is the strength in which I trust." Lesson 47, A Course In Miracles
HELEN SCHUCMAN There isn't an hour of my life without you in it. I mend the boats, test them and all the while the ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Believers in liberal freedom should worry not whether their regime can prevail in competition with a...
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF I'd rather people just borrow the idea and do their own thing in their own community, ... Whenever p...
DAVE EGGERS The worst thing that can happen for a writer is for a writer to start believing their own press. I t...
GREG RUCKA Learn to appreciate every moment of your life, stop thinking of the future too much, you have a choi...
AULIQ ICE When man turns tyrant it is his own freedom he destroys.
GEORGE ORWELL (1903 - 1950) —Help these boys build a nation their own. Ransack the histories for clues to their past. Plunder ...
JAMIE O'NEILL These make it possible for customers to build their own vertical applications. They can edit, copy, ...
MIKE WHEELER Beaming into the thick of a tree without becoming a lifelong tree hugger was a tricky business. A pr...
CHRISTINA ENGELA When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON

More Kahlil Gibran

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other w...
KAHLIL GIBRAN It is well go give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
KAHLIL GIBRAN To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
KAHLIL GIBRAN And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your h...
KAHLIL GIBRAN The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regre...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be po...
KAHLIL GIBRAN It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores...
KAHLIL GIBRAN When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his win...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger amon...
KAHLIL GIBRAN I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unk...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Your children are not your children.
They are sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from be...
KAHLIL GIBRAN You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”...
KAHLIL GIBRAN When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold y...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love o...
KAHLIL GIBRAN We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes th...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That...
KAHLIL GIBRAN If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they n...
KAHLIL GIBRAN When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
KAHLIL GIBRAN My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear-a care-woven garment that protects ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and re...
KAHLIL GIBRAN I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you...
KAHLIL GIBRAN In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
KAHLIL GIBRAN For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cea...
KAHLIL GIBRAN They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve...
KAHLIL GIBRAN The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn...
KAHLIL GIBRAN What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?
KAHLIL GIBRAN I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affect...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
KAHLIL GIBRAN I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unk...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
KAHLIL GIBRAN When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path...
KAHLIL GIBRAN To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
KAHLIL GIBRAN March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorn...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
KAHLIL GIBRAN The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of s...
KAHLIL GIBRAN We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
KAHLIL GIBRAN You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house t...
KAHLIL GIBRAN You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
KAHLIL GIBRAN You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you trul...
KAHLIL GIBRAN A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
KAHLIL GIBRAN All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the fo...
KAHLIL GIBRAN What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
KAHLIL GIBRAN Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself...
KAHLIL GIBRAN The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who di...
KAHLIL GIBRAN I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those with...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls it...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
KAHLIL GIBRAN You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skyla...
KAHLIL GIBRAN If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always re...
KAHLIL GIBRAN No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your know...
KAHLIL GIBRAN A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and re...
KAHLIL GIBRAN What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come ne...
KAHLIL GIBRAN The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host,...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to k...
KAHLIL GIBRAN The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
KAHLIL GIBRAN If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and the...
KAHLIL GIBRAN An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier th...
KAHLIL GIBRAN And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
KAHLIL GIBRAN For this I bless you most: You give much and know not that you give at all.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you n...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge,...
KAHLIL GIBRAN That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in th...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recomp...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, foll...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
KAHLIL GIBRAN If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
KAHLIL GIBRAN I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with th...
KAHLIL GIBRAN If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have s...
KAHLIL GIBRAN The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do...
KAHLIL GIBRAN When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart
KAHLIL GIBRAN Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. -Kahlil Gibran.
KAHLIL GIBRAN The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other...
KAHLIL GIBRAN He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despi...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
KAHLIL GIBRAN When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to...
KAHLIL GIBRAN I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unki...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of orig...
KAHLIL GIBRAN It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
KAHLIL GIBRAN If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
KAHLIL GIBRAN And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass ov...
KAHLIL GIBRAN The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to...
KAHLIL GIBRAN I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the u...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Time is the cruelest teacher; first she gives the test, then teaches the lesson.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Reality is for those who lack imagination
KAHLIL GIBRAN The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.
KAHLIL GIBRAN The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and res...
KAHLIL GIBRAN I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the un...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars...
KAHLIL GIBRAN I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my b...
KAHLIL GIBRAN There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
KAHLIL GIBRAN He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.
KAHLIL GIBRAN There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his lo...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blin...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
KAHLIL GIBRAN The most wonderful thing, Mary, is that you and I are always walking together, hand in hand, in a st...
KAHLIL GIBRAN An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
KAHLIL GIBRAN You often say ; I would give , but only to the deserving, The trees in your orchard say not so , nor...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names....
KAHLIL GIBRAN You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link.
This is but h...
KAHLIL GIBRAN And my heart bled within me; for you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom become...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.
KAHLIL GIBRAN I love you, my brother, whoever you are - whether you worship in a church, kneel in your temple, or ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Even as the stone of t...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem les...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear...
KAHLIL GIBRAN تقولين لي أنك تخافين الحب
لماذا تخافينه يا صغيرتي ؟ ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN And if our hands should meet in another dream, we shall build another tower in the sky.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Nerede olursa olsun, toprağı kaz, bir hazine bulacaksın;
ama bir çiftçinin inancıyla kazm...
KAHLIL GIBRAN No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowle...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.
And though you se...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.
KAHLIL GIBRAN We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.
KAHLIL GIBRAN You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.
KAHLIL GIBRAN You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your j...
KAHLIL GIBRAN And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your h...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil.
For what is evil but good tortured by its ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveile...
KAHLIL GIBRAN And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the de...
KAHLIL GIBRAN It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
KAHLIL GIBRAN In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-...
KAHLIL GIBRAN The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
KAHLIL GIBRAN It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
KAHLIL GIBRAN In the sweetness of friendship; let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew o...
KAHLIL GIBRAN If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
KAHLIL GIBRAN I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unki...
KAHLIL GIBRAN God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatn...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of trib...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better tha...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Your friend is your needs answered.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
KAHLIL GIBRAN In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
KAHLIL GIBRAN We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.
KAHLIL GIBRAN The philosopher's soul dwells in his head, the poet's soul is in his heart; the singer's soul linger...
KAHLIL GIBRAN نحن نتكلم عندما توصد أمامنا أبواب السلام عن افكارنا ، و...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the peopl...
KAHLIL GIBRAN In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of li...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Let your best be for your friend...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Oh, heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower wit...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Faith is confirmed by the heart, confessed by the tongue, and acted upon by the body
KAHLIL GIBRAN