Top 200 Kahlil Gibran Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.”

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152. “The highest virtue here may be the least in another world.”

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153. “Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

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154. “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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155. “And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief. Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.”

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156. “Miserable is the man who loves a woman and takes her for a wife, pouring at her feet the sweat of his skin and the blood of his body and the life of his heart, and placing in her hands the fruit of his toil and the revenue of hi s diligence; for when he slowly wakes up, he finds that the heart, which he endeavoured to buy, is given freely and in sincerity to another man for the enjoyment of its hidden secrets and deepest love.”

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157. “Said the Eye one day, “I see beyond these valleys a mountain veiled with blue mist. Is it not beautiful?” The Ear listened, and after listening intently awhile, said, “But where is any mountain? I.”

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158. “Art is one step from the visibly known toward the unknown. MS-71.”

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159. “Many a woman borrows a man’s heart; Very few could possess it.”

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160. “And if it is a fear you would dispel, the seat of that fear is in your heart and not in the hand of the feared.”

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

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162. “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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163. “Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: 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.”

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164. “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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165. “You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore... But let there be spaces in your togetherness... Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not of the same loaf. 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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166. “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life’s longing for itself.”

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167. “He stood up and looked at me even as the seasons might look down upon the field, and He smiled. And He said again: “All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.”

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168. “For many of my arrows left my bow only to seek my own breast.”

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169. “If winter should say, “Spring is in my heart,” who would believe winter?”

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170. “Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy you may find in them a harness and a chain. Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your skin and less of your raiment. For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.”

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

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172. “But if in your fear you would seek only love’s peace and pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love’s threshing-floor.”

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173. “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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174. “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. There.”

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175. “In some countries, the parent’s wealth is a source of misery for the children. The.”

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176. “But you, children of space, you restless in rest, you shall not be trapped nor tamed.”

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177. “The resting place of my soul is a beautiful grove where my knowledge of you lives.”

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178. “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. It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden for ever in bloom and a flock of angels for ever in flight.”

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179. “The freest song comes not through bars and wires.”

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180. “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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181. “It were wiser to speak less of God, Whom we cannot understand, and more of each other, whom we may understand.”

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182. “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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183. “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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184. “One may not reach the dawn by the path of the night.”

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

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186. “He suffered much, but he understood the mystery of pain: he knew that tears make all things shine.”

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187. “Sorrow is just a wall between two gardens.”

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188. “Hurry, oh peaceful Death, and carry me from these multitudes who left me in the dark corner of oblivion because I do not bleed the weak as they do. Come, oh gentle Death, and enfold me under your white wings, for my fellowmen are not in want of me. Embrace.”

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189. “Where shall you seek beauty, and how shall you find her unless she herself be your way and your guide?”

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190. “And even as each one of you stands alone in God’s knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth.”

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191. “Love is forever shy of beauty, yet beauty shall forever be pursued by love.”

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192. “Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.”

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193. “All you have shall some day be given; Therefore, give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors’.”

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194. “What is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?”

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195. “Shall I come to you, a boundless drop to a boundless ocean.”

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196. “Shall there come a day when wise men are able to unite the dreams of youth and the delights of learning as reproach brings together hearts in conflict? Shall there come a day when man’s teacher is nature, and humanity is his book.”

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197. “Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”

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198. “And he who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird.”

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199. “Your reason and your passion are the rudder and sails of your seafaring soul.”

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200. “We are richer in material wealth than those villagers; but their spirit is a nobler spirit than ours. We.”

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