Top 500 Khalil Gibran Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.”

— Khalil Gibran

352. “No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Khalil Gibran

354. “Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.”

— Khalil Gibran

355. “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.”

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Khalil Gibran

357. “If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.”

— Khalil Gibran

358. “Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.”

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359. “Death changes nothing but the mask that covers our faces.”

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360. “He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.”

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

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362. “If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.”

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

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364. “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.”

— Khalil Gibran

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

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

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367. “God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind.”

— Khalil Gibran

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

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369. “And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man’s ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.”

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370. “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.”

— Khalil Gibran

371. “You who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.”

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

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Khalil Gibran

374. “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?”

— Khalil Gibran

375. “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.”

— Khalil Gibran

376. “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.”

— Khalil Gibran

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

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

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

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381. “I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.”

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

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

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384. “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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385. “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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386. “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.”

— Khalil Gibran

387. “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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388. “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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389. “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.”

— Khalil Gibran

390. “Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?”

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391. “He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life.”

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392. “For a love to grow through the test of everyday living, one must respect that zone of privacy where one retires to relate to the inside instead of the outside.”

— Khalil Gibran

393. “Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.”

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

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395. “Love is trembling happiness.”

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396. “When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.”

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397. “If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth.”

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398. “The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.”

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399. “Let us disperse from our aloofness and serve the weak who made us strong, and cleanse the country in which we live. Let us teach this miserable nation to smile and rejoice with heaven’s bounty and glory of life and freedom.”

— Khalil Gibran

400. “Love passes by us, robed in meekness; but we flee from her in fear, or hide in the darkness; or else pursue her, to do evil in her name.”

— Khalil Gibran