Khalil Gibran Quotes

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.

Reason without passion is sterile, but passion without reason is hysteria.

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality.

Your reason and your passion are your rudder and sails of your seafaring soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

Emotion is always the enemy of wise statesmanship.

Never exaggerate, but express your feelings with moderation.

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.

In all human affairs, the wisest course is to be passionate about the role of reason and reasonable about the role of passion.

And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

Wise people may say what they will, but one passion is never cured by another.

Measure your emotions. You don't need an atomic explosion for a minor point.

Love increases through righteous restraint and decreases through impulsive indulgence.

The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.

Do not plunge thyself too far in anger.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree.

Men are victims of their own impulses.

Let us love temperately, things violent last not.

My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.