Top 500 Khalil Gibran Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “Knowledge and understanding are life’s faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff; and when they are with you, you can possess no greater treasures.”

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452. “You are a flower crushed beneath the feet of the animal that is concealed in a human being. Take comfort, in that you are the flower crushed and not the foot that has crushed it.”

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453. “What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless?”

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454. “Love is the veil between lover and lover.”

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455. “You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable. You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons. Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing.”

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456. “And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.”

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457. “If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.”

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458. “To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.”

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459. “Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast It shall not be a glistening film that covers a wound, but an eyelid that guards the eye.”

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460. “He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.”

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461. “And your fragrance shall be my breath, And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.”

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462. “If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.”

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463. “Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.”

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464. “He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.”

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465. “My brothers, seek counsel of one another, for therein lies the way out of error and futile repentance. The wisdom of the many is your shield against tyranny. For when we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.”

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

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467. “What is fear of need but need itself?”

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468. “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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469. “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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470. “Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east.”

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

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

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

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476. “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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477. “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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478. “Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.”

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479. “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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480. “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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481. “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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482. “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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483. “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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484. “To be closer to god, be closer to people.”

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485. “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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486. “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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487. “Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”

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488. “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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489. “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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490. “When you are sorrowful, look again.”

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

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

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

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

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

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500. “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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