Top 200 Kahlil Gibran Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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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52. “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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53. “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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54. “A woman may veil her face with a smile.”

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55. “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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56. “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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57. “Suffer not yet our eyes to hunger for your face.”

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58. “Waiting is the hoofs of time.”

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59. “Once every hundred years Jesus of Nazareth meets Jesus of the Christian in a garden among the hills of Lebanon. And they talk long; and each time Jesus of Nazareth goes away saying to Jesus of the Christian, “My friend, I fear we shall never, never agree.”

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60. “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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61. “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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62. “And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also. For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live. For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness. And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”

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63. “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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64. “Poetry is not an opinion expressed. It is a song that rises from a bleeding wound or a smiling mouth.”

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65. “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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66. “The poets and writers are trying to understand the reality of woman, but up to this day they have not understood the hidden secret of her heart because they look upon her from behind the sexual veil and see nothing but the externals: they look upon her through a magnifying glass of hatefulness and find nothing except weakness and submission.”

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67. “Ready am I to go, and my eagerness with sails full set awaits the wind. Only another breath will I breathe in this still air, only another loving look cast backward, And then I shall stand among you, a seafarer among seafarers.”

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68. “I am a stranger in this world, and there is a severe solitude and painful lonesomeness in my exile.”

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

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

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

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72. “Much have we loved you. But speechless was our love, and with veils has it been veiled. Yet now it cries aloud unto you, and would stand revealed before you. And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

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73. “SPRING In every winter’s heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a smiling dawn. SP-ST-57.”

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74. “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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75. “You are good when you are one with yourself.”

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76. “The professors in the academy say, “Do not make the model more beautiful than she is,” and my soul whispers, “O if you could only paint the model as beautiful as she really is.”

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

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

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80. “Said a hunted fox followed by twenty horsemen and a pack of twenty hounds, “Of course they will kill me. But how poor and how stupid they must be. Surely it would not be worth while for twenty foxes riding on twenty asses and accompanied by twenty wolves to chase and kill one man.”

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81. “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, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.”

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82. “For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.”

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83. “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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84. “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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85. “Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart’s knowledge. You would know in words that which you have always known in thought. You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams.”

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86. “Those people who go to back to eternity before they taste the sweetness of real life are unable to understand the meaning of a woman’s suffering. Especially when she devotes her soul to a man she loves by the will of God, and her body to another whom she caresses by the enforcement of earthly law. It.”

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87. “The cup does not entice the lips unless the wine’s colour is seen through the transparent crystal.”

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88. “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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89. “After all this is not a bad prison; but I do not like this wall between my cell and the next priosner’s cell; Yet I assure you that I do not wish to reproach the warder nor the builder of the prison.”

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90. “And if our hands should meet in another dream, we shall build another tower in the sky.”

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91. “You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps. Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping. Even those who limp go not backward. But you who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.”

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92. “The appearance of things change according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.”

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93. “Much in you is still man, and much in you is not yet man, But a shapeless pigmy.”

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94. “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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95. “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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96. “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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97. “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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98. “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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99. “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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100. “In that year I was reborn and unless a person is born again his life will remain like a blank sheet in the book of existence. In that year, I saw the angels of heaven looking at me through the eyes of a beautiful woman. I also saw the devils of hell raging in the heart of an evil man. He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.”

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