Top 200 Kahlil Gibran Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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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52. “You are blind and I am deaf and dumb, so let us touch hands and understand.”

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53. “Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.”

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54. “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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55. “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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56. “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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57. “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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58. “Waiting is the hoofs of time.”

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59. “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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60. “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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61. “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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62. “Do not the spirits who dwell in the ether envy man his pain?”

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

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64. “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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65. “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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66. “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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67. “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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68. “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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69. “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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70. “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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71. “The deeper sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”

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72. “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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73. “There is neither religion nor science beyond beauty.”

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

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76. “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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77. “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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78. “A woman may veil her face with a smile.”

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

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80. “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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81. “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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82. “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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83. “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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84. “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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85. “It is life in quest of life in bodies that fear the grave.”

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

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

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

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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. “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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94. “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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95. “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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96. “Poetry is not an opinion expressed. It is a song that rises from a bleeding wound or a smiling mouth.”

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97. “Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul. S.”

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98. “Drink not from this cup unless you forget the past and the future, for happiness is naught but the moment.” And.”

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99. “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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100. “You are good when you are one with yourself.”

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