The Prophet Quotes

“Your soul is oftimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgement wage war against your passion and your appetite.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“And if this day is not a fulfilment of your needs and my love, then let it be a promise till another day.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

For what is prayer but the expansion of yourself into the liv- ing ether?”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“On Marriage

You were born together
together, and together you shall be for evermore.

You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness. And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,

Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.

And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“Maar als je in je angst slechts liefdes vrede en liefdes vreugde
zoekt,
Dan is het beter dat je je naaktheid bedekt en je terugtrekt
van liefdes dorsvloer,
Terug in de zouteloze wereld waar je zult lachen, maar nooit
uit volle borst,
En huilen, maar nooit al je tranen.
Liefde geeft niets, behalve zichzelf, en ze neemt niets behal-
ve van zichzelf.
Liefde wil niet bezitten en niet bezeten worden;
Want liefde is liefde genoeg.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“But should my voice fade in your ears, and my love vanish in your memory, then I will come again, And with a richer heart and lips more yielding to the spirit will I speak.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. A”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“Would that I would be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy. Only when you are empty are you at standstill and balanced.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“The wind speaks not more sweetly to the giant oaks than to the least of all the blades of grass; And he alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. Z”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?

Seek him always with the hours to live.
For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet