Top 200 Kahlil Gibran Quotes (2026 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. “For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.”

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103. “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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104. “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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105. “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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106. “Only an idiot and a genius break man-made laws; and they are the nearest to the heart of God.”

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

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108. “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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109. “A woman may veil her face with a smile.”

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110. “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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111. “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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112. “Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches. Yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.”

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113. “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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114. “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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115. “It is life in quest of life in bodies that fear the grave.”

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

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

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120. “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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121. “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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122. “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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123. “Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul. S.”

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124. “You’re reason and your passion are the rudder... and the sails of your soul. If either be broken, you will drift or be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to it’s own destruction.”

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

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

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127. “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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128. “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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129. “If you would rise but a cubit above race and country and self you would indeed become godlike.”

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

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131. “My life was a coma, empty like that of Adam’s in Paradise, when I saw Selma standing before me like a column of light. She was the Eve of my heart who filled it with secrets and wonders and made me understand the meaning of life...”

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132. “It is said that unsophistication makes a man empty and that emptiness makes him carefree.”

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

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134. “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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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. “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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137. “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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138. “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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139. “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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140. “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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141. “Your other self is always sorry for you. But your other self grows on sorrow, so all is well.”

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142. “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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143. “Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving...”

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

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146. “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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147. “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 fullfilment. you should be free indeed when your days are not without care nor your nights without a word and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked unbound.”

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148. “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.”

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

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