Khalil Gibran Quotations | Page 5

The longing for paradise is paradise itself.

That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.

You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.

He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it.

Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.

I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the multitude. And I would not have the tears that sadness makes to flow from my every part turn into laughter. I would that my life remain a tear and a smile.

The wolves prey upon the lambs in the darkness of the night, but the blood stains remain upon the stones in the valley until the dawn comes, and the sun reveals the crime to all.

I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.

Then it is also in my heart to be worthy of your hate.