Top 200 Kahlil Gibran Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “But let there be spaces in your togetherness. And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.”

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

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104. “I long for eternity because there I shall meet my unwritten poems and my unpainted pictures.”

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105. “DEVIL Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers. WM-ST-62.”

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106. “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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107. “The two lovers walked among the willow trees, and the oneness of each was a language speaking of the oneness of both; and an ear listening in silence to the inspiration of love; and a seeing eye seeing the glory of happiness. “Astarte has brought back our souls to this life so that the delights of love and the glory of youth might not be forbidden us, my beloved.”

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108. “TORCH The human soul is but a part of a burning torch which God separated from Himself at Creation. WM-ST-67.”

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109. “Love possesses not nor would it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love. And think not you can direct the course of love; for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”

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

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

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112. “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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113. “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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114. “Could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;.”

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115. “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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116. “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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117. “Only an idiot and a genius break man-made laws; and they are the nearest to the heart of God.”

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118. “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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119. “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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120. “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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121. “And if any of you would punish in the name of righteousness and lay the ax unto the evil tree, let him see to its roots;.”

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122. “To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.”

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123. “And my heart bled within me; for you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, and when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal and a fulfillment.”

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124. “Oftentimes have I heard you speak of one who commits a wrong as though he were not one of you, but a stranger unto you and an intruder upon your world. But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.”

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125. “Believing is a fine thing, but putting those beliefs into execution is a test of strength.”

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126. “But tell me, who is he that can offend the spirit? Shall the nightingale offend the stillness of the night, or the firefly the stars?”

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127. “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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128. “Say not, “I have found the path of the soul.” Say rather, “I have met the soul walking upon my path.” For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.”

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129. “When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep.”

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130. “Every thought I have imprisoned in expression I must free by my deeds.”

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131. “Perhaps the dark can veil trees and flowers from the eye. But it can’t hide love from the soul.”

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132. “Your other self is always sorry for you. But your other self grows on sorrow, so all is well.”

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133. “Shall there come a day when man’s teacher is nature, and humanity is his book and life his school? Will.”

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134. “A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings.”

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135. “A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, “I will have a camel for lunch today.” And all morning he went about looking for camels. But at noon he saw his shadow again-and he said, “A mouse will do.”

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136. “A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that give it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun.”

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137. “Once there lived a man who had a valley-full of needles. And one day the mother of Jesus came to him and said: “Friend, my son’s garment is torn and I must needs mend it before he goeth to the temple. Wouldst thou not give me a needle?” And he gave her not a needle, but he gave her a learned discourse on Giving and Taking to carry to her son before he should go to the temple.”

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138. “In the summer heat the reapers say, “We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair.”

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139. “Surely you would not honour one guest above the other; for he who is more mindful of one loses the love and the faith of both.”

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140. “One may not reach the dawn by the path of the night.”

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141. “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime.”

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142. “And he who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage. The freest song comes not through bars and wires.”

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143. “Votre joie est votre tristesse sans masque.”

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144. “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered. For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.”

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145. “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life’s longing for itself.”

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

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147. “Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity: For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen, And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.”

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148. “Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”

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149. “Love that comes between the naivete and awakening of youth satisfies itself with possessing, and grows with embraces. But Love which is born in the firmament’s lap and has descended with the night’s secrets is not contented with anything but eternity and immortality.”

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150. “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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