Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
KHALIL GIBRANYesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
KHALIL GIBRANIt takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
KHALIL GIBRANMen who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
KHALIL GIBRANA woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.
KHALIL GIBRANBeauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
KHALIL GIBRANOur worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
KHALIL GIBRANGenerosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
KHALIL GIBRANBe like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.
KHALIL GIBRANKeep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
KHALIL GIBRANBetween what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.
KHALIL GIBRANTrees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.
KHALIL GIBRANOur anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
KHALIL GIBRANOut of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
KHALIL GIBRANDo not keep crying when your love has been gone. You only need Smile because he had been given you the opportunity to meet someone who is better.
KHALIL GIBRANLet there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
KHALIL GIBRANWisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
KHALIL GIBRAN