Top 200 Kahlil Gibran Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings.”

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152. “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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153. “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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154. “Votre joie est votre tristesse sans masque.”

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155. “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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156. “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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157. “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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158. “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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159. “Your reason and your passion are the rudder and sails of your seafaring soul.”

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

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

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163. “Hearts that are united through the medium of sorrow will not be separated by the glory of happiness. Love.”

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

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165. “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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166. “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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167. “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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168. “The highest virtue here may be the least in another world.”

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

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170. “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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171. “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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172. “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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173. “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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174. “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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175. “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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176. “The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.”

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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. “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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179. “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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180. “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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181. “Not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city.”

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182. “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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183. “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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184. “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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185. “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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186. “Love is forever shy of beauty, yet beauty shall forever be pursued by love.”

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

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188. “You cannot separate the just from the unjust and the good from the wicked; For they stand together before the face of the sun even as the black thread and the white are woven together.”

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189. “MADNESS Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of “sanity.” The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means. SP-ST-62.”

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

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

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192. “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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193. “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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194. “In the forests, there is no religion. No, not even ugly blasphemy there.”

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

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

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197. “You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.”

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198. “Much in you is still man, and much in you is not yet man, But a shapeless pigmy that walks asleep in the mist searching for its own awakening.”

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

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

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