Top 500 Khalil Gibran Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “One day you will ask me which is more important – my life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.”

— Khalil Gibran

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2. “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

— Khalil Gibran

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3. “If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.”

— Khalil Gibran

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4. “We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.”

— Khalil Gibran

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5. “Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”

— Khalil Gibran

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6. “Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.”

— Khalil Gibran

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7. “To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.”

— Khalil Gibran

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8. “I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.”

— Khalil Gibran

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9. “It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.”

— Khalil Gibran

10. “Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. ”

— Khalil Gibran

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11. “Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.”

— Khalil Gibran

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12. “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

— Khalil Gibran

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13. “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”

— Khalil Gibran

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14. “Rest in reason. Move in Passion.”

— Khalil Gibran

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15. “We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”

— Khalil Gibran

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16. “Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”

— Khalil Gibran

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17. “The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.”

— Khalil Gibran

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18. “They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.”

— Khalil Gibran

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19. “A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.”

— Khalil Gibran

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20. “The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.”

— Khalil Gibran

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21. “Only love and death will change all things.”

— Khalil Gibran

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22. “Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.”

— Khalil Gibran

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23. “I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.”

— Khalil Gibran

24. “Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”

— Khalil Gibran

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25. “But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

— Khalil Gibran

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26. “Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.”

— Khalil Gibran

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27. “A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.”

— Khalil Gibran

28. “Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.”

— Khalil Gibran

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29. “Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.”

— Khalil Gibran

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30. “Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”

— Khalil Gibran

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31. “Much of your pain is self-chosen.”

— Khalil Gibran

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32. “Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.”

— Khalil Gibran

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33. “Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.”

— Khalil Gibran

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34. “Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.”

— Khalil Gibran

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35. “All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.”

— Khalil Gibran

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36. “Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.”

— Khalil Gibran

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37. “Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings.”

— Khalil Gibran

38. “The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.”

— Khalil Gibran

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39. “We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.”

— Khalil Gibran

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40. “The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”

— Khalil Gibran

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41. “And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”

— Khalil Gibran

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42. “Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.”

— Khalil Gibran

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43. “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. 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 tranquility.”

— Khalil Gibran

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44. “I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”

— Khalil Gibran

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45. “Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.”

— Khalil Gibran

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46. “A traveler I am, and a navigator, and every day I discover a new region within my soul.”

— Khalil Gibran

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47. “Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.”

— Khalil Gibran

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48. “Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”

— Khalil Gibran

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49. “Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.”

— Khalil Gibran

50. “Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure. Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful.”

— Khalil Gibran

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