Kahlil Gibran The Prophet Quotes

#1. I always quoted to my parents from Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet." Your children are not your children. They come through you, but not from you. You can give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they come from a land that you cannot enter, not even in your wildest dreams.

Andrew Young

#2. And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. - KAHLIL GIBRAN The Prophet

Jodi Picoult

#3. You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps.
Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping.
For those who limp go not backwards.
But you who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.

Kahlil Gibran

#4. life unfolds itself in mysteries ways.

Kahlil Gibran

#5. For God opens the doors of truth to him who knocks with the hand of faith

Kahlil Gibran

#6. My favorite big city would have to be Chicago. I lived in Indiana for several years and would always go into the city with my family for Cubs games or to visit the aquarium and museums on field trips.

Karen Fairchild

#7. Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

Larry Bird

#8. Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.

Kahlil Gibran

#9. You never hear about good seafood places.

Curtis Granderson

#10. Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But let this happen in such a way that no one become aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand to be produced immediately.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#11. What shall i say of these save that they too stand in the sunlight, but with their backs to the sun?
They see only their shadows, and their shadows are their laws.

Kahlil Gibran

#12. Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.

Nancy Astor

#13. Yea, I shall return with the tide.

Kahlil Gibran

#14. And yes, being lovesick is like being in mourning. Because you die, because your future dies and you with it...There is a hurting time. It lasts for so long. But it gets better. I know that now.

Nina George

#15. Books are like our children. They are often conceived by inspiration, but are born only by labor.

R.G. Yoho

#16. I have come to learn about things that intrigue people through their strangeness. But barley did I find myself in you presence than I understood that life is none other than the different manifestations of the universal spirit.

Kahlil Gibran

#17. He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.
The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.

Kahlil Gibran

#18. It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.

Diablo Cody

#19. When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him,Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him,Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.

Kahlil Gibran

#20. If you asked my kids to describe me, they'd go through a whole list of words before even thinking about Parkinson's. And honestly, I don't think about it that much either. I talk about it because it's there, but it's not my totality.

Michael J. Fox

#21. (Never) judge a book by its cover or a woman by her kitchen.

Cindy Woodsmall

#22. Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it.
Kahlil Gibran (Visions of the Prophet)

Kahlil Gibran

#23. Is life like this? Is it a past that goes by, then crumbles away, and a present that runs in the wake of the past, and a future that can only be grasped if one talks of it in the present or past tense?

Kahlil Gibran

#24. Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.

Kahlil Gibran

#25. We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw.

Wendell Berry

#26. I have loved humanity, I have loved it so much. For me, there are three kinds of men; he who curses life, he who blesses it and he who contemplates it. I loved the first for his wretchedness, the second for his indulgence and the third for his perception.

Kahlil Gibran

#27. Some believe that art is the imitation of nature; in fact, nature is so sublime that it cannot be imitated. However noble it may be, art cannot perform a single one of the miracles of nature. And besides, why imitate nature when it can be perceived by all those endowed with senses?

Kahlil Gibran

#28. My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.

Tom Jenkinson