Top 500 Khalil Gibran Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Follow your heart. Your heart is the right guide in everything big. Mine is so limited. What you want to do is determined by that divine element that is in each of us.”

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452. “Let ignorance reproduce itself until it is weary of its own offspring.”

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453. “I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now.”

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454. “The longing for paradise is paradise itself.”

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455. “I would tell you more of Him, but how shall I? When love becomes vast love becomes wordless. And when memory is overladen it seeks the silent deep.”

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456. “Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.”

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457. “Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east.”

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458. “And one of the elders of the city, said, speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good .”

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459. “How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.”

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460. “We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.”

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461. “The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.”

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462. “They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom.”

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463. “Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.”

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464. “My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my thirst. But in this burning that is never extinguished is a joy that never wanes.”

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465. “I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.”

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466. “Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.”

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467. “The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him he will unfold his wings and fly back to his dwelling place.”

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468. “You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth.”

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469. “Those to whom worshiping is a window, to open but also to shut, have not yet visited the house of their souls whose windows are open from dawn to dawn.”

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

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471. “The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.”

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472. “There are those who give little of the much which they have – and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.”

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473. “It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden forever in bloom and a flock of angels forever in flight.”

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474. “For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose windows are the songs and the silences of night.”

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475. “The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.”

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476. “Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.”

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477. “In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.”

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478. “Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames.”

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479. “To be closer to god, be closer to people.”

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480. “Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.”

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481. “A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.”

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482. “I am the lover’s gift; I am the wedding wreath; I am the memory of a moment of happiness; I am the last gift of the living to the dead; I am a part of joy and a part of sorrow.”

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483. “And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.”

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484. “Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”

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485. “Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by concentrating on the beauty of the universe.”

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486. “When you have grasped a problem clearly, face it with resolution, for that is the way of the strong.”

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487. “He that tries to seize an opportunity after it has passed him by is like one who sees it approach but will not go to meet it.”

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488. “When you are sorrowful, look again.”

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489. “If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.”

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490. “We who love Him beheld Him with these our eyes which He made to see; and we touched Him with these our hands which He taught to reach forth.”

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491. “He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.”

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492. “The truly good is he who is one with all those who are deemed bad.”

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493. “Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Doubt is a foundling unhappy and astray, and though his own mother who gave him birth should find him and enfold him, he would withdraw in caution and in fear.”

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494. “The first thought of God was an angel. The first word of God was a man.”

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495. “Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.”

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496. “The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.”

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497. “Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.”

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498. “You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.”

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

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500. “Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.”

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