Top 200 Kahlil Gibran Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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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152. “In the forests, there is no religion. No, not even ugly blasphemy there.”

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

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

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156. “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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157. “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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158. “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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159. “If winter should say, “Spring is in my heart,” who would believe winter?”

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

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162. “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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163. “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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164. “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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165. “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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166. “ACTION A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowled1ge that is idle. WM-ST-63.”

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

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

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

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171. “To be overmindful of your debt is to doubt his generosity who has the free-hearted earth for mother, and God for father...”

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172. “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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173. “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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174. “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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175. “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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176. “Art is one step from the visibly known toward the unknown. MS-71.”

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

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178. “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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179. “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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180. “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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181. “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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182. “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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183. “Hearts that are united through the medium of sorrow will not be separated by the glory of happiness. Love.”

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

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185. “If you can see only what light reveals and hear only what sound announces, then in truth you do not see nor do you hear.”

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

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188. “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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189. “For the master spirit of the earth shall not sleep peacefully upon the wind till the needs of the least of you are satisfied.”

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190. “Frogs may bellow louder than bulls, but they cannot drag the plough in the field nor turn the wheel of the winepress, and of their skins you cannot make shoes.”

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

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

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

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195. “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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196. “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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197. “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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198. “For many of my arrows left my bow only to seek my own breast.”

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

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