Khalil Gibran Quotes

I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.

You cannot devalue the body and value the soul Or value anything else.

In the very corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god.

Life is effort. So says the body. Life is blessing. So says the soul.

I loved my body and did not want it to perish; I loved my soul and did not want it to decay. I have fought to reconcile these two primordial forces.

Wonder blasts the soul - that is, the spiritual - and the skeleton, the body - the material. Wonder interprets life through the eyes of eternity while enjoying the moment, but never lets the moment's revision exhaust the eternal.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

My life is such a contradiction. My soul yearns for holiness and then runs from the mortification necessary to attain it.

The Westerners have lost the vision of heaven, they go hunting for the pure spirit in the belly. The pure soul takes not color and scent from the body, and Communism has nothing to do save with the body.

He who comes to take the love of God can have no taste for the love of the world.

Balance the cost of the soul you lost with the dreams you lightly sold.

Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.

Our spirit is the real part of us, the body but its garment. A man would not find peace at the tailor's because his coat comes from there; neither can the spirit obtain true happiness from the earth just because his body belongs to earth.

If soul my look and body touch, Which is the more blest?

So now the devil's in my soul.

The soul is the prison of the body.

The body sprang At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,-no!

The flesh is as spiritual as the soul, and the soul is as natural as the flesh.

Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.

I have a woman inside my soul.

Olympism is a doctrine of the fraternity between the body and the soul.

You have to decide to servant the gods of materialism all around us or the true and the living God.

Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul.

The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.

There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.