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All Quotes by author - Khalil Gibran
" Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. "
Fear
Blood
Perfection
" A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? "
Mountain
Friend
Sometimes
" A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. "
Worth
Knowledge
Idle
" All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. "
Mind
Crumbs
Feast
" All that spirits desire, spirits attain. "
Spirits
Attain
Desire
" And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. "
Love
Romantic
Separation
" And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. "
Earth
Gardening
Play
" Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert. "
Politician
First
Country
" Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. "
Well-Known
Art
Obvious
" Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. "
Eternity
Itself
Gazing
" But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. "
Sea
Love
Dance
" Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. "
Poverty
Equality
Learn
" Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. "
Death
Own
Land
" Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. "
Know
Brother
Lonely
" Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. "
Love
Been
Depth
" Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper. "
Truth
Lost
Temper
" Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. "
Faith
Reach
Beyond
" Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking. "
Faith
Never
Thinking
" Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. "
Nature
Play
Feet
" For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. "
Life
Death
Sea
" Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. "
Friendship
Opportunity
Responsibility
" Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. "
Pride
Giving
You
" Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do. "
More
Me
Giving
" Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers. "
Body
Sacrifice
Heart
" I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end. "
Eternity
End
Exist
" If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song. "
You
Me
Together
" If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. "
Perish
Survival
Sweeter
" If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul. "
Humble
Him
Grandfather
" If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember. "
Always
You
Remember
" If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. "
Leave
Love
Work
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