Top 500 Khalil Gibran Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “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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252. “Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.”

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

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

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255. “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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256. “All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.”

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

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

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

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260. “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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261. “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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262. “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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263. “Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.”

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264. “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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265. “Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.”

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

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267. “Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.”

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268. “Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”

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

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271. “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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272. “Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.”

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273. “For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger.”

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274. “Life is weaker than Death and Death is weaker than Truth.”

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275. “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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276. “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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277. “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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278. “The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.”

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

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280. “The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.”

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

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283. “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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284. “Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.”

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285. “At ebb tide I wrote a line upon the sand, and gave it all my heart and all my soul. At flood tide I returned to read what I had inscribed and found my ignorance upon the shore.”

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

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287. “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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288. “Rob a neighbour with a smile.”

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

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

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293. “Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.”

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

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295. “A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun.”

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

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298. “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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299. “Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.”

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

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