Khalil Gibran Quotes

Let not the tongue give utterance to the evil that is in thine heart, but command thy tongue to be silent until good shall prevail over evil.

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.

I'm really into good nutrition and keeping healthy! That said, I'm also addicted to candy - It's my biggest weakness.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.

The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Forties are good! I'm thinking with my brain now, which is a lot more clear, and women seem to appreciate that. It's a wonderful decade where you're in control of yourself but the women are still interested.

It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.

He lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of a man, his own tongue.

Every man may speak truly, but to speak methodically, prudently, and fully is a talent that few men have.

Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue.

The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.

Better the feet slip then the tongue.

While one is asleep one cannot do anything that is good. Virtue is impossible in unconsciousness, only sin is possible. Unconsciousness is the source of sin.

This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to Love even the wrongdoer.

From his tongue flowed speech sweeter than honey.

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it. No man is compelled to evil: his consent only makes it his. It is no sin to be tempted, but to be overcome.

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, "A fool cannot hold his tongue.