Top 200 Kahlil Gibran Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “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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202. “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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203. “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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204. “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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205. “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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206. “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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207. “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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208. “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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209. “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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210. “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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211. “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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212. “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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213. “Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not receive. When you meet Beauty, you feel that the hands deep within your inner self are stretched forth to bring her into the domain of your heart. It is a magnificence combined of sorrow and joy; it is the Unseen which you see, and the Vague which you understand, and the Mute which you hear-it is the Holy of Holies that begins in yourself and ends vastly beyond your earthly imagination.”

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214. “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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215. “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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216. “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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217. “Oftentimes I have hated in self-defense; but if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.”

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218. “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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219. “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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220. “Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and nights.”

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

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222. “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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223. “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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224. “You are far greater than you know, and all is well.”

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

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227. “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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228. “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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229. “The sea that calls all things unto her calls me, and I must embark.”

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230. “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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231. “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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232. “Your friend is your needs answered.”

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

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234. “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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235. “And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.”

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236. “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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237. “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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238. “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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239. “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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240. “It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit, and to know that all blessed dead are standing about you and watching. Work is love made visible.”

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

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243. “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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