Collected Works Of Kahlil Gibran Quotes

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

When a man destroys his fellow, people say that such a one is a murderer. When one set in authority destroys, it is said that this one is a faithful judge.

My soul counselled me and instructed me to see that the light which I carry is not my light, That my song was not created within me; For though I travel with the light, I am not the light.

from The Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran. Your children are not your children, They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, Which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Then the Queen of Fantasy drew me toward her with a look of enchanting and kissed my burning lips, say: "Say that who passes not his days in the region of dreams is the slave of those days.