Author of quotes: Gibran Kahlil Gibran. Page 2

A truly great person is the one who does not teach and no one will learn.

Love gives only itself and takes only from itself. Love owns nothing and does not want that somebody owned it. For love settle for love...

If the hearts of contiguous throes of sadness, they can not separate the brilliance and splendor of joy. Sadness ties bind heart stronger bonds of bliss and joy. Love, bathed with tears, pure, beautiful and eternal.

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind, but, oddly enough, I do not feel the slightest gratitude to these teachers.

Than a large cave dig into the well of Your soul sorrow, the more joy well then Your soul will be able to accommodate.

Is there any greater disadvantage than to notice other people's shortcomings?

Many teachings are similar to window glass. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Beauty does not need, and ecstasy. This is not the way that you would like to see, and not the song you want to hear, but the image that you see, even if somknite eyes and a song you hear, even if you close your ears.

You can forget the person with whom laughed, but never forget the person with whom we cried together.

Loneliness is the ally of sorrow, it is the companion of spiritual exaltation.

Only once I found the answer. When I was asked who I was.

Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your for understanding.

Is it not surprising that the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain?

We do elect their joys and sorrows long before experience them.