Top 200 Kahlil Gibran Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.”

— Kahlil Gibran

2. “Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers.”

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3. “Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup.”

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4. “Life kisses our faces every morning. Yet, between morning and evening, she laughs at our sorrows.”

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5. “I hope I will live long and be able to do some things worthy of giving to you who is giving so much to me.”

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6. “I am not strong enough for life’s pleasure and sweetness, because a bird with broken wings cannot fly in the spacious sky. The eyes that are accustomed to the dim light of a candle are not strong enough to stare at the sun.”

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7. “Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.”

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8. “The breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.”

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9. “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. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.”

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10. “Oh human heart, woman is your own reflection, and whatever you are, she is; wherever you live, she lives; she is like religion if not interpreted by the ignorant, and like a moon, if not veiled with clouds, and like a breeze, if not poisoned with impurities.”

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11. “The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. But it is night that raises them to the stars.”

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12. “Deep is your longing for the land of your memories and the dwelling-place of your greater desires; and our love would not bind you nor our needs hold you.”

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13. “You have been told also that life is darkness, and in your weariness you echo what was said by the weary. And I say that life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work in love you bind yourself to yourself, to one another, and to God.”

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14. “Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.”

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15. “When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.” And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”

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16. “You are my brother and I love you. I love you worshipping in your church, kneeling in your temple, and praying in your mosque. You and I and all are children of one religion, for the varied paths of religion are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being, extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, anxious to receive all.”

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17. “Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For.”

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18. “When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turn to music.”

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19. “Farewell to you and the youth I have spent with you. It was but yesterday we met in a dream. You have sung to me in my aloneness, and I of your longings have built a tower in the sky. But now our sleep has fled and our dream is over, and it is no longer dawn. The noontide is upon us and our half waking has turned to fuller day, and we must part. If in the twilight of memory, we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.”

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20. “And when the shadow fades and is no more, the light that lingers becomes a shadow to another light.”

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21. “And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”

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22. “And though heavy-grounded ships await the tide upon your shores, yet, even like an ocean, you cannot hasten your tides.”

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23. “Jesus loved me and I knew not why. And I loved him because He quickened my spirit to heights beyond my stature, and to depths beyond my sounding. Love is a sacred mystery. To those who love, it remains forever wordless; But to those who do not love, it may be but a heartless jest.”

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24. “We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.”

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25. “Forget not that modesty is for a shield against the eye of the unclean. And when the unclean shall be no more, what were modesty but a fetter and a fouling of the mind?”

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26. “It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit, and to know that all blessed dead are standing about you and watching. Work is love made visible.”

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27. “You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam.”

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28. “And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.”

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29. “Our God, who art our winged self, it is thy will in us that willeth. “It is thy desire in us that desireth. “It is thy urge in us that would turn our nights, which are thine, into days, which are thine also. “We cannot ask thee for aught, for thou knowest our needs before they are born in us: “Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all.”

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30. “You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.”

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31. “Said the Eye one day, “I see beyond these valleys a mountain veiled with blue mist. Is it not beautiful?” The Ear listened, and after listening intently awhile, said, “But where is any mountain? I.”

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32. “You may judge others only according to your knowledge of yourself.”

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33. “There are those who give little of the much which they have – and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome. And there are those who have little and give it all. These are the believers in life and the bounty of life, and their coffer is never empty. There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. And there are those who give with pain, and that pain is their baptism.”

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34. “A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence? If this is my day of harvest, in what fields have I sowed the seed, and in what unremembered seasons?”

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35. “Was the love of Judas’ mother of her son less than the love of Mary for Jesus?”

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36. “The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.”

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37. “For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.”

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38. “A great singer is he who sings our silences.”

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39. “Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: ‘You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight more in breaking them.”

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40. “Long ago you were a dream in your mother’s sleep, and then she awoke to give you birth.”

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41. “And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself.”

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42. “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”

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43. “Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.”

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44. “Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not receive. When you meet Beauty, you feel that the hands deep within your inner self are stretched forth to bring her into the domain of your heart. It is a magnificence combined of sorrow and joy; it is the Unseen which you see, and the Vague which you understand, and the Mute which you hear-it is the Holy of Holies that begins in yourself and ends vastly beyond your earthly imagination.”

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45. “You may tie my hands with chains and my feet with shackles, and put me in the dark prison, but who shall not enslave my thinking, for it is free, like the breeze in the spacious sky.”

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46. “Between us, Mary, there stands an unknown god.”

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47. “In the morning, when I walked in the fields, I saw the token of Eternity in the awakening of nature, and when I sat by the seashore I heard the waves singing the song of Eternity.”

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48. “And knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.”

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49. “The flowers of spring are winter’s dreams related at the breakfast table of the angels.”

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50. “I am the infinite sea, and all worlds are but grains of sand upon my shore.”

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