Top 500 Khalil Gibran Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger.”

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252. “Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.”

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253. “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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254. “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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255. “How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.”

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256. “We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.”

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257. “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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258. “Art is a step in the known toward the unknown.”

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259. “For this I bless you most. You give much and know not that you give at all.”

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260. “When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?”

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261. “He alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.”

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262. “Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came to make the human heart a temple, and the soul an altar, and the mind a priest.”

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

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265. “Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.”

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266. “Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.”

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267. “Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through me? A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence?”

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268. “Rob a neighbour with a smile.”

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269. “The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.”

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270. “Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?”

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271. “Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.”

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272. “Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.”

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273. “Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.”

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274. “Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.”

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275. “Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.”

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276. “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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277. “Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for the sake of the Truth? It is our inner selves that hurt us when we disobey it, and it kills us when we betray it.”

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278. “Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.”

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

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280. “Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.”

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281. “He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.”

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282. “For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.”

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283. “Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.”

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284. “Even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.”

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285. “Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.”

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286. “You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.”

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287. “The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.”

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288. “Your saying ‘I do not understand you’ is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve.”

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289. “It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life. Now I know that I am the sphere, and all life in rhythmic fragments moves within me.”

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290. “Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another.”

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291. “Love has the power that dispels death; charm that conquers the enemy.”

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292. “Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.”

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293. “The philosopher’s soul dwells in his head, the poet’s soul is in his heart; the singer’s soul lingers about his throat, but the soul of the dancer abides in all her body.”

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294. “They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see a slave sleeping, wake him and explain to him freedom.”

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295. “Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master.”

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296. “The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.”

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297. “A root is a flower that disdains fame.”

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298. “I use hate as a weapon to defend myself; had I been strong, I would never have needed that kind of weapon.”

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299. “Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.”

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300. “But now I have learned to listen to silence. To hear its choirs singing the song of ages, chanting the hymns of space, and disclosing the secrets of eternity.”

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