Top 500 Khalil Gibran Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “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

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

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

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404. “Love is trembling happiness.”

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

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406. “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.”

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

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408. “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

409. “I came here to be for all and with all, and what I do today in my solitude will be echoed tomorrow by the multitude. What I say now with one heart will be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts...”

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410. “And if there come the singers, and the dancers and the flute players – buy of their gifts also. For they too are gatherers of fruit and frankincense, and that which they bring, though fashioned of dreams, is raiment and fod for your soul.”

— Khalil Gibran

411. “Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night; and it is not dreamless. Does not your house dream, and dreaming, leave the city for grove or hilltop?”

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412. “Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?”

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413. “The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among us. He laughed and said, “This is too hard a thing to do, and it will take too long. Were it not better to count only the wise?””

— Khalil Gibran

414. “Humanity is a river of light running from the ex-eternity to eternity.”

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415. “Because the soul is like a flower that folds its petals when dark comes, and breathes not its fragrance into the phantoms of the night.”

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416. “Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.”

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417. “To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life’s inmost secrets.”

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418. “A minute moving among the patterns of beauty and the dreams of love is greater and more precious than an age filled with splendor granted by the weak to the strong.”

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419. “Follow your heart. Your heart is the right guide in everything big. Mine is so limited. What you want to do is determined by that divine element that is in each of us.”

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420. “For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart.”

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421. “I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now.”

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422. “The longing for paradise is paradise itself.”

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423. “How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.”

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424. “Love provided me with a tongue and tears.”

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425. “God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us to search our souls for the meaning of the mysteries described in ancient books.”

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426. “Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.”

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427. “And one of the elders of the city, said, speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good .”

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428. “Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.”

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429. “We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.”

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430. “They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom.”

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431. “The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.”

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432. “And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone. Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him, who though faster and surer of foot, yet removed not the stumbling stone.”

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433. “Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.”

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434. “In every aspect of the day Jesus was aware of the Father. He beheld Him in the clouds and in the shadows of the clouds that pass over the earth.”

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435. “In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.”

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436. “Your house is your larger body.”

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437. “Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames.”

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438. “And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart: Your seeds shall live in my body, And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart, And your fragrance shall be my breath, And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.”

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439. “And that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.”

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440. “To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.”

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441. “A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.”

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442. “A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.”

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443. “He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.”

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444. “Poverty hides itself in thought before it surrenders to purses.”

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445. “When you have grasped a problem clearly, face it with resolution, for that is the way of the strong.”

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446. “The first thought of God was an angel. The first word of God was a man.”

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447. “Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.”

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448. “If any of you would bring judgment the unfaithful wife, let him also weight the heart of her husband in scales, and measure his soul with measurements.”

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449. “If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.”

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450. “How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.”

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