9 Posts found for Author: Kahlil Gibran

Our senses, like our neighbors, hate what they do not understand.

Author: Kahlil Gibran | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Concepts, Senses

In my youth I longed for the unknown, and for the unknown I am still longing. But in the days of my youth longing embraced necessity that knows naught of patience. Today I long not less, but my longing is friendly with patience, and even waiting.

Author: Kahlil Gibran | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Life & Society, Personal Improvement

For in revery you cannot rise above your achievements nor fall lower than your failures.

Author: Kahlil Gibran | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society

He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.

Author: Kahlil Gibran | Subjects: Concepts, Ethics | Integrity | Morality

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Author: Kahlil Gibran | Subjects: Concepts, Education | Scholarship, Wisdom

For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.

Author: Kahlil Gibran | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Concepts, Love

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Author: Kahlil Gibran | Subject: Wisdom

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Author: Kahlil Gibran | Subjects: Psychology | Behavior, Wisdom

Your children are not your children. …
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. …
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Author: Kahlil Gibran | Subject: Family & Friends