Philosophy Quote by Kahlil Gibran — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”

“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”

“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”

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

“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and melt into the sun?”

“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.”

“Vivo sin vivir en mí... muero porque no muero. (I live without really being alive... I die because I am not dying.)”

“All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.”

“What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that is, to see as a problem; that is, to see as strange, as distant, as 'outside us'.”

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”

“in this case, a mother, noted for her beauty, might be reduced to a purple shadow... (Tansley to Lily on her painting of the house & grounds)”

“The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance”