Inspirational Quotes

Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.

Kahlil Gibran Quotes

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Attainment Desire Willpower All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Growth Pain Understanding Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Action Application Knowledge A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Decisiveness Strength Zeal Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

Comfort Control Domination Greed The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Bliss Eternal Wisdom Foolishness Knowledge Pain Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Language Mind Thought Words All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Growth Human Worth Resilience Wisdom The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Emotion If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Doubt Incompatibility Love Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Balance Endurance Faith Gratitude Prosperity You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Learning Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Connection Freedom Nature Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Division Perception Truth Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Change Inspiration Progress Time Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

Growth Knowledge Potential Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

Purpose Rebellion Truth Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Commitment Friendship Mutual Support Responsibility Selflessness Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Happiness Love Love is trembling happiness.

Faith Knowledge Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Commitment Duty Honesty Passion Purpose If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Beauty Love Truth Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Conflict Ideology Individual Perspectives Truth Unity vs Division You have your ideology and I have mine.

Friendship Needs Support Your friend is your needs answered.

Knowledge Self-Discovery No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Altruism Morality Self Sacrifice If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

Empathy Humility Wisdom Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Ignorance Rejection Wisdom Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Hypocrisy Justice Political Power War Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

Learning Mentorship Self-Discovery Teaching Wisdom The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.