Top 500 Khalil Gibran Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.”

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

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353. “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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354. “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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355. “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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356. “Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.”

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357. “Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?”

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

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359. “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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360. “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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361. “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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362. “Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.”

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

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

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

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367. “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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368. “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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369. “For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?”

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370. “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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371. “You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time.”

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372. “Love descends upon our souls by the will of God and not by the demand or the plea of the individual.”

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373. “Inspiration will always sing; inspiration will never explain.”

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374. “Learn the words of wisdom uttered by the wise and apply them in your own life. Live them – but do not a make a show of reciting them, for he who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass loaded with books.”

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375. “Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.”

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376. “Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.”

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377. “When you feel Jealousy is a sign that Love should have each other.”

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378. “Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.”

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379. “The very strength that protects the heart from injury is the strength that prevents the heart from enlarging to its intended greatness within. The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.”

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380. “A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.”

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381. “We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.”

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382. “Make me, oh God, the prey of the Lion, ere you make the rabbit my prey.”

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383. “Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.”

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384. “Man is like the foam of the sea, that floats upon the surface of the water. When the wind blows, it vanishes, as if it had never been. Thus are our lives blown away by Death.”

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385. “The “I” in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.”

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386. “A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free.”

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387. “Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret?”

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388. “Everyone has experienced that truth: that love, like a running brook, is disregarded, taken for granted; but when the brook freezes over, then people begin to remember how it was when it ran, and they want it to run again.”

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389. “I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.”

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390. “Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.”

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391. “Cover me with soft earth, and let each handful be mixed With seeds ofjasmine, lilies, and myrtle; and when they Grow above me and thrive on my body’s element they will Breathe the fragrance of my heart into space.”

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392. “When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.”

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393. “As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.”

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394. “Our pain carves out a larger space for love to fill.”

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395. “A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.”

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396. “It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.”

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397. “That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined. Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones?”

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398. “When you were a wandering desire in the mist, I too was there, a wandering desire. Then we sought one another, and out of our eagerness dreams were born. And dreams were time limitless, and dreams were space without measure.”

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399. “I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.”

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400. “In a dream I saw Jesus and My God Pan sitting together in the heart of the forest. They laughed at each other’s speech, with the brook that ran near them, and the laughter of Jesus was the merrier. And they conversed long.”

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