Top 500 Khalil Gibran Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “In the depths of your hopes and desires, lies your silent knowledge of the beyond, and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.”

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202. “My God, my aim and my fulfillment; I am thy yesterday and thou art my tomorrow. I am thy root in the earth and thou art my flower in the sky, and together we grow before the face of the sun.”

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203. “God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.”

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

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

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206. “Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.”

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207. “An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.”

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

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209. “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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210. “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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211. “All that spirits desire, spirits attain.”

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

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

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

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

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

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219. “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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220. “Now let us play hide and seek. Should you hide in my heart it would not be difficult to find you. But should you hide behind your own shell, then it would be useless for anyone to seek you.”

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

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222. “Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.”

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223. “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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224. “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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225. “A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.”

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

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

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

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

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

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232. “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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233. “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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234. “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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235. “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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236. “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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237. “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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238. “For this I bless you most. You give much and know not that you give at all.”

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239. “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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240. “Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.”

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241. “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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242. “Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.”

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243. “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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244. “Art is a step in the known toward the unknown.”

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245. “When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.”

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

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248. “I am forever walking upon these shores, Betwixt the sand and the foam, The high tide will erase my food prnts, And the wind will blow away the foam, But the sea and the shore will remain forver.”

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249. “You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.”

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250. “Let your home be you mast and not your anchor.”

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