Top 200 Kahlil Gibran Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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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102. “A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings.”

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103. “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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104. “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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105. “Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul. S.”

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106. “A great singer is he who sings our silences.”

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107. “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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108. “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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109. “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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110. “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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111. “But let there be spaces in your togetherness. And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.”

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112. “It is life in quest of life in bodies that fear the grave.”

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113. “The deeper sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”

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

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

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

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

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118. “Death changes nothing but the masks that cover our faces.”

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

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121. “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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122. “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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123. “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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124. “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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125. “It is said that unsophistication makes a man empty and that emptiness makes him carefree.”

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126. “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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127. “I have always held, with my Madman, that those who understand us enslave something in us. It is not so with you. Your understanding of me is the most peaceful freedom I have known. And in the last two hours of your last visit you took my heart in your hand and found a black spot in it. But just as soon as you found the spot it was erased forever, and I became absolutely chainless.”

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128. “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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129. “He never hearkened to the dictates of his heart, but busied himself in obeying the voices of his environment. H e amused himself with shimmering objects that blinded his eyes and heart to life’s secrets; his soul was diverted away from an understanding of the law of nature, and to a temporary self-gratification.”

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130. “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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131. “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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132. “See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving. For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.”

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133. “When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God”.”

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134. “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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135. “And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields. And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.”

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

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138. “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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139. “ACTION A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowled1ge that is idle. WM-ST-63.”

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140. “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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141. “And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart inflamed and a soul enchanted. It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear, But rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears.”

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142. “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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143. “Not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city.”

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

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146. “Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations? Who can spread his hours before him, saying, “This for God and this for myself; “This for my soul and this other for my body”?”

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147. “When a person loses a friend, he consoles himself with the many other friends about him, and if he loses his gold, he meditates for a while and casts misfortune from his mind, especially when he finds himself healthy and still laden with ambition. But when a man loses the ease of his heart, where can he find comfort, and with what can he replace it? What mind can master it?”

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148. “In the forests, there is no religion. No, not even ugly blasphemy there.”

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149. “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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150. “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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