Top 500 Khalil Gibran Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.”

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202. “Love that is cleansed by tears will remain eternally pure and beautiful.”

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203. “I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the multitude. And I would not have the tears that sadness makes to flow from my every part turn into laughter. I would that my life remain a tear and a smile.”

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204. “Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end.”

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205. “And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.”

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206. “If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.”

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207. “If it’s a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.”

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208. “The heart’s affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch; it will suffer but it does not die; it will pour all its vitality into the next branch so that it will grow and fill the empty place.”

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209. “Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons.”

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210. “The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.”

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211. “For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.”

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212. “The first glance from the eyes of the beloved is like the spirit that moved upon the face of the waters, giving birth to heaven and earth.”

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213. “Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.”

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214. “The snow and the storm destroy the flower; but its seed they cannot kill.”

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215. “The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.”

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216. “No human relation gives one possession in another – every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.”

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217. “A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.”

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218. “A truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.”

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219. “Many are the places of worship, but few indeed are those who worship in Spirit and in truth.”

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220. “The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.”

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221. “Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.”

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222. “All that spirits desire, spirits attain.”

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223. “You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.”

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224. “The chemist who can extract from his heart’s elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.”

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225. “Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.”

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226. “God has given you a spirit with wings on which to soar into the spacious firmament of Love and Freedom. Is it not pitiful than that you cut your wings with your own hands and suffer your soul to crawl like an insect upon the earth?”

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227. “When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.”

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228. “The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up the paths of mankind. For in one soul are contained the hopes and feelings of all Mankind.”

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229. “And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.”

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230. “But if in your fear you would seek only love’s peace and love’s pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love’s threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.”

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231. “Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.”

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232. “Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born.”

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233. “When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”

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234. “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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235. “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.”

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236. “All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.”

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237. “I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.”

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238. “It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.”

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239. “For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.”

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240. “Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.”

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241. “Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.”

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242. “All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.”

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243. “Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.”

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244. “Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.”

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245. “How can I lose faith in the justice of life, when the dreams of those who sleep upon feathers are not more beautiful than the dreams of those who sleep upon the earth?”

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246. “Where are you now, my beloved? Do you hear my weeping From beyond the ocean? Do you understand my need? Do you know the greatness of my patience?”

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247. “Now I realize that the trees blossom in Spring and bear fruit in Summer without seeking praise; and they drop their leaves in Autumn and become naked in Winter without fearing blame.”

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248. “Love is the gentle smile upon the lips of beauty.”

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249. “Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb?”

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250. “The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.”

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