Top 500 Khalil Gibran Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Life is but a sleep disturbed by dreaming, prompted by the will; the saddened soul with sadness hides it’s secrets, and the gay, with thrill.”

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302. “Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, ‘Who are you?’”

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303. “Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.”

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304. “But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you?”

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

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306. “Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness.”

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307. “In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings.”

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308. “The sea that calls all things unto her cals me, and I must embark.”

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309. “He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering.”

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310. “He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.”

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311. “The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is healed or dead.”

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312. “As one’s gifts increase, his friends decrease.”

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

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314. “Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.”

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315. “A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks; but the face which, in silence, does not announce hidden mysteries is not beautiful, regardless of the symmetry of its features.”

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316. “Give me an ear and I will give you a Voice...”

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317. “The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.”

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318. “Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.”

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319. “The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.”

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320. “And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.”

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321. “Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.”

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

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323. “Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires.”

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324. “Tears have cleansed my eyes, and errors have taught me the language of the hearts.”

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325. “You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free!”

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326. “God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.”

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327. “God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.”

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328. “You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.”

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329. “When God created Man, he gave him Music as a language different from all other languages. And early man sang his glory in the wilderness; and drew the hearts of kings and moved them from their thrones.”

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330. “Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.”

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331. “The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.”

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332. “Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.”

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333. “All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.”

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334. “Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.”

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335. “The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body.”

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336. “A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.”

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337. “You have your ideology and I have mine.”

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338. “Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.”

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339. “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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340. “Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.”

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341. “In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of people’s wrath.”

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342. “You often say, “I would give, but only to the deserving.” The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.”

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343. “Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.”

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

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345. “Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.”

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346. “If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day.”

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347. “Do not keep crying when your love has been gone. You only need Smile because he had been given you the opportunity to meet someone who is better.”

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348. “For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?”

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

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350. “These things he said in words. But much in his heart remained unsaid. For he himself could not speak his deeper secret.”

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