Top 200 Kahlil Gibran Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “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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202. “The freest song comes not through bars and wires.”

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203. “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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204. “Sorrow is just a wall between two gardens.”

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

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207. “I want to write more but I cannot. I am a little weary and the silence in my soul is black. I wish I could rest my head on your shoulder.”

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

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210. “Beauty shines brighter in the heart of him who longs for it than in the eyes of him who sees it.”

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

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212. “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.”

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213. “The house that does not comfort the needy is worthy of naught but destruction.”

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

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216. “Oh, heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.”

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217. “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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218. “You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy. Ay, you are like an ocean, And though heavy-grounded ships await the tide upon your shores, yet, even like an ocean, you cannot hasten your tides.”

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219. “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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220. “MIMIC He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books. WM-ST-63.”

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221. “The musician may sing to you of the rhythm which is in all space, but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rhythm nor the voice that echoes it.”

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

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

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224. “Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.” 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.”

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225. “I have a yearning for my beautiful country, and I love its people because of their misery. But if my people rose, stimulated by plunder and motivated by what they call “patriotic spirit” to murder, and invaded my neighbour’s country, then upon the committing of any human atrocity I would hate my people and my country.”

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226. “Dengan matanya yang kecil, manusia hanya memandang sesuatu secara lahiriah semata dan tidak memandang misteri-misteri yang tersembunyi di baliknya. Dalam ketidak pastiannya, mereka menghakimi dan dalam kebutaannya mereka menghujat. Yang bersalah dan yang tak berdosa, yang baik dan yang jahat adalah sama bagi mereka.”

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227. “Oftentimes I have hated in self-defense; but if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.”

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

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229. “Her bones were of bronze and her sinews of the ancient elms, and her eyes were like the sky, wide and daring.”

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230. “Wealth is as love in that it destroys him who withholds it but grants life to him who gives freely of it.”

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231. “He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred may neither understand you nor know your true worth.”

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232. “I loved him not, yet I did not hate Him. I listened to Him not to hear His words but rather he sound of His voice; for His voice pleased me. All that He said was vague to my mind, but the music thereof was clear to my ear. Indeed were it not for what others have said to me of His teaching, I should not have known even so much as whether He was with Judea or against it.”

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233. “What is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?”

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234. “So too is love a sigh from the sea of emotions, a tear from the sky of love, and a smile from the field of the soul.”

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235. “Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and nights.”

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236. “Your friend is your needs answered.”

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237. “I love you, my brother, whoever you are – whether you worship in a church, kneel in your temple, or pray in your mosque. You and I are children of one faith, for the diverse paths of religion are fingers of the loving hand of the one supreme being, a hand extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, eager to receive all.”

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238. “You are far greater than you know, and all is well.”

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239. “Today I believe in Life and in all that she brings upon us, and I confirm that all that the days and nights bring is good, and beautiful and useful.”

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240. “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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241. “The sea that calls all things unto her calls me, and I must embark.”

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242. “And if there come the singers and the dancers and the flute-players, – buy of their gifts also. For they too are gatherers of fruit and frankincense, and that which they bring, though fashioned of dreams, is raiment and food for your soul.”

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243. “He drank life from these breasts now dry, and he took his first steps in this garden, grasping these fingers that are now like trembling reeds.”

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