Top 500 Khalil Gibran Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.”

— Khalil Gibran

102. “I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.”

— Khalil Gibran

103. “Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.”

— Khalil Gibran

104. “You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.”

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105. “Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.”

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106. “And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.”

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107. “You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”

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108. “Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.”

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109. “And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.”

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110. “Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.”

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111. “If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.”

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112. “The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.”

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113. “Let there be spaces in your togetherness.”

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114. “How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.”

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115. “If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.”

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116. “There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.”

— Khalil Gibran

117. “Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.”

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118. “I do not want you to hear that I LOVE you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say.”

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119. “And alone and without his nest shall the Eagle fly across the sun.”

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120. “Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.”

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121. “A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?”

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122. “From a sensitive woman’s heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind’s affection.”

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

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124. “You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.”

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125. “Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.”

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126. “Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.”

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127. “Listen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.”

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128. “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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129. “He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans.”

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130. “Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.”

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131. “Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.”

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132. “One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.”

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133. “I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop.”

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134. “I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.”

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135. “Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”

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136. “Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.” But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”

— Khalil Gibran

137. “In every winter’s heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a shining dawn.”

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138. “For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.”

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139. “You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.”

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140. “Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.”

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141. “Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’”

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142. “Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse.”

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143. “When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.”

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144. “Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.”

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145. “Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.”

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146. “If winter should say, ‘Spring is in my heart,’ who would believe winter?”

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147. “History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.”

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148. “A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible.”

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

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150. “Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.”

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