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Quotationss of Kahlil Gibran

Quotations of Kahlil Gibran

Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do.
The difference between the richest man and the poorest is but a day of hunger and an hour of thirst.
Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.
The bitterest thing in our today's sorrow is the memory of our yesterday's joy.
Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.
Said a gracious wolf to a simple sheep, "Will you not honour our house with a visit?"
And the sheep answered, "We would have been honoured to visit your house if it were not in your stomach."
You cannot consume beyond your appetite. The other half of the loaf belongs to the other person, and there should remain a little bread for the chance guest.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity:
For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,
And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips,
has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has
moistened with His own sacred tears.