Top 200 Kahlil Gibran Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “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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52. “Love is the only freedom in this world, because it elevates the soul to a lofty station that cannot be attained by the laws and customs of human beings or conquered by the laws of nature.”

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

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

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55. “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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56. “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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57. “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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58. “Between us, Mary, there stands an unknown god.”

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

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

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62. “You are blind and I am deaf and dumb, so let us touch hands and understand.”

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63. “Destiny comes suddenly, bringing concern; she stares at you with horrible eyes and clutches you at the throat with sharp fingers and hurls you to the ground and tramples upon you with ironclad feet; then she laughs and walks away, but later regrets her actions and asks you through good fortune to forgive her. She stretches her silky hand and lifts you high and sings to you the Song of Hope and causes you to lose your cares. She creates in you a new zest for confidence and ambition.”

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

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65. “Yestereve, on the marble steps of the Temple, I saw a woman sitting between two men. One side of her face was pale, the other was blushing.”

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66. “Waiting is the hoofs of time.”

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67. “And what is fear of need but need itself? Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?”

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68. “Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering? And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn?”

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69. “Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow. Solitude is the ally of sorry as well as a companion of spiritual exaltation.”

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70. “NIGHTINGALE The nightingale does not make his nest in a cage lest slavery be the lot of its chicks. BW-ST-122.”

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71. “When you meet your friend on the roadside or in the market place, let the spirit in you move your lips and direct your tongue. Let the voice within your voice speak to the ear of his ear; For his soul will keep the truth of your heart as the taste of the wine is remembered. When the colour is forgotten and the vessel is no more.”

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72. “And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.”

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73. “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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74. “Do not the spirits who dwell in the ether envy man his pain?”

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75. “The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light. If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.”

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76. “True light is that which radiates from within a man. It reveals the secrets of the soul to the soul and lets it rejoice in life, singing in the name of the Spirit. Truth is like the stars, which cannot be seen except beyond the darkness of night. Truth is like all beautiful things in existence; it does not reveal its beauties save to those who have felt the weight of falsehood. Truth is a hidden feeling which teaches us to rejoice in our days and to wish all mankind that rejoicing.”

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77. “And you, vast sea, sleeping mother, Who alone are peace and freedom to the river and the stream, Only another winding will this stream make, only another murmur in this glade, And then I shall come to you, a boundless drop to a boundless ocean.”

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78. “Pleasure is a freedom-song, But it is not freedom. It is the blossoming of your desires, But it is not their fruit. It is a depth calling unto a height, But it is not the deep nor the high.”

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79. “If tragedy does not ensnare a man, if affliction does not agitate him, if love does not lay him down in the cradle of dreams, then his life is like a blank, white page in the book of existence. In that year I saw the.”

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80. “Those to whom love has not given wings cannot fly behind the cloud of appearances to see the magic world in which Selma’s spirit and mine existed together in that sorrowfully happy hour. Those whom Love has not chosen as followers do not hear when Love calls. This story is not for them. Even if they should comprehend these pages, they would not be able to grasp the shadowy meanings which are not clothed in words and do not reside on paper.”

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81. “You are the way and the wayfarers. And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone. Aye, and he falls for those ahead of him, who, though faster and surer of foot, yet removed not the stumbling stone.”

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82. “For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride?”

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83. “Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. And now it was evening. And Almitra the seeress said, Blessed be this day and this place and your spirit that has spoken. And he answered, Was it I who spoke? Was I not also a listener? Then he descended the steps of.”

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84. “For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered? Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.”

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85. “Suffer not yet our eyes to hunger for your face.”

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86. “When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”

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87. “You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. For what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear you may need them tomorrow?”

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88. “Even those who limp go not backward.”

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89. “There is neither religion nor science beyond beauty.”

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90. “In truth that which you call freedom is the strongest of these chains, though its links glitter in the sun and dazzle your eyes.”

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91. “Self is a sea boundless and measureless.”

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92. “FLOWERS The flowers of the field are the children of sun’s affection and nature’s love; and the children of men are the flowers of love and compassion. BW-ST-122.”

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93. “God has created several doors which open onto truth. He opens them to all those who knock on them with the hand of faith.”

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94. “And when you were a silent word upon Life’s quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us and we came down the years throbbing with memories of yesterday and with longing for tomorrow, for yesterday was death conquered and tomorrow was birth pursued.”

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95. “Art is a step from nature toward the Infinite.”

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96. “Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.”

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97. “And there are those who have little and give it all.”

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98. “You are good when you are one with yourself.”

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99. “Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

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100. “The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remain hovering over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves. I am one of those who remembers those places regardless of distance or time.”

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