Inspiring Quotes by Khalil Gibran for Today’s Era
- Your silence regarding what dismight you, your initial concessions, your avoidance of what burdens you, your concealment of refusals, your patience, and your restraint—all of these are forms of resilience that inflict pain solely on yourself.
- We often await beautiful news; at times, it suffices for us to have no bad news.
- Do not rely on others as if you are incapable; likewise, do not let them grow accustomed to leaning on you as if you are a wall.
- If someone does not appreciate your presence, make them appreciate your absence.
- Words may be deceptive, but actions are always sincere.
- Love requires both a tormentor and a tormented party to reach fulfillment.
- Every hardship shall pass.
- The platform of humanity is its silent heart, not its loquacious mind.
Most Beautiful Sayings and Wisdom of Khalil Gibran on Life
- The greater your love for someone, the more sensitive you become to their words, actions, and reactions. Because you expect them to always consider your feelings, you may find yourself easily hurt by them.
- Perhaps disagreement is the shortest distance between two thoughts.
- Love can only be purchased with love.
- I have learned silence from the talkative, leniency from the fanatical, and kindness from the rude; ironically, I do not acknowledge the grace of these teachers.
- It is disgraceful for a man to belittle his beloved.
- Greetings to those who understand the meaning of love without having a beloved.
- Some reside deep within you and make you feel that life is beautiful, no matter how harsh it becomes.
- It is painful to pretend to distance yourself when you are on the verge of bursting with longing.
- A false friend is like a shadow; they walk behind you when you are in the sunlight but disappear when you are in darkness.
- Truth requires two individuals: one to speak it and another to understand it.
- The word “mother” hides in our hearts just as the seed conceals itself in the earth’s core, emerging from our lips in moments of joy and sorrow, much like fragrance rises from the heart of a rose in a clear, rainy space.
- I am a stranger in this world. My solitude in this estrangement is a harsh and painful isolation, yet it continually compels me to think of a magical homeland I do not know, filling my dreams with the specters of distant lands my eyes have never beheld.
- O, just love, you who have restrained my desires with your mighty hand and transformed my hunger and thirst into dignity and pride—do not allow the strong of will within me to consume the bread or drink the wine that seduces my weak self. Rather, let me starve, allow my heart to burn with thirst, and leave me to perish before I extend my hand to a goblet that you have not filled or a cup that you have not blessed.
Poem: “If a Person is Not Treated Equitably According to their Struggles”
- The poet states:
If a person is not rewarded in proportion to their efforts,
Then they have honor equal to their struggles.
Aim for lofty aspirations and lean towards them
With a vision that illuminates the darkness.
And persevere, for victory does not belong to the youth
Who expends effort extravagantly, but rather to the frugal.
The eagle in need of its broken wing
Seeks the high skies and its spacious desires.
Can one ascend to the pinnacle of perfection
Without overcoming deficiency?
It is said that contentment is a form of wealth; I say it is everything
But it applies to the body, not the heart.
We have eradicated melodies that do not lead
To the subjugation of the admirer.
We have made every tune a lament, and it indicates
A beloved’s aversion or obstinacy.
There is no joy except in sorrow within our hearts;
It is a melody that has become habitual for the soul.
Drunkenness nearly deafens us with its sound
If it rises beyond a state of descent.
Oh, celebrate, my people, in a lamenting cry
For your nation, your honor, or your deep affection.
Oh, celebrate as the army is led by music
In fierce battle, igniting in flames.
Oh, celebrate while the sea, in its turmoil,
Illustrates the rhythm of its grandeur.
Oh, celebrate as the river pours its torrents
Into its base, crashing with force.
Oh, celebrate for the wilderness is silent like a grave,
As our mountains echo the galloping of horses.
Oh, the day shall be witnessed; oh, a grand victory;
Oh, for the band that raises its voice in unity.
Is there not great rhetoric in the youth’s calling
And no shout in pride and self-assertion?
Only the rumble of thunder and the flash of lightning;
Only the clouds racing through the valleys in their tempest.
Is there not a tune unless it greets the breeze
In a strange land that longed for its return?
Beautiful Verses by Khalil Gibran About Life
- The poet conveys:
I have despaired of life, and my despair
Would ease my soul if only my conscience were silent.
Yet I continue to endure the torment of thought;
In reckoning, it is the difficult path.
I lost my happiness and tranquility of mind,
And joy and delight have abandoned me.
I have descended into disgrace after dignity;
O, my sorrow, what a wretched fate!
I have betrayed my husband, who is most faithful,
Honored, and adorned in his virtue.
And I betrayed our benefactor; my sin,
In light of his grace, is considerable.
I was under his care after my father,
But I repaid his goodness with misdeed.
My efforts bore no fulfillment, for I was not quenched;
More than what that loathing could bring upon me.
And despair surrounds me, as I find nowhere
But where I rest or walk.
- He also states:
Happiness in this world is but a specter
One hopes for; when it becomes tangible, it grows tiresome.
Like a river rushing towards the plain,
Until it reaches its destination, it slows and becomes murky.
People do not obtain happiness except in their yearning
For the unattainable, once they possess it, they become indifferent.
If you meet a happy man as he departs
From the unattainable, say that his character is found in his lessons.
- He states as well:
Life has disguised itself as if a timeless age
Comes and passes in silence.