Top 500 Khalil Gibran Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.”

— Khalil Gibran

402. “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...”

— Khalil Gibran

403. “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

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

— Khalil Gibran

405. “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?”

— Khalil Gibran

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

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407. “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

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

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409. “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.”

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Khalil Gibran

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

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412. “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.”

— Khalil Gibran

413. “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.”

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Khalil Gibran

415. “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.”

— Khalil Gibran

416. “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.”

— Khalil Gibran

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

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

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419. “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.”

— Khalil Gibran

420. “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.”

— Khalil Gibran

421. “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.”

— Khalil Gibran

422. “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.”

— Khalil Gibran

423. “Your house is your larger body.”

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424. “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.”

— Khalil Gibran

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

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

— Khalil Gibran

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

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

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430. “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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431. “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.”

— Khalil Gibran

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

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433. “Knowledge and understanding are life’s faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff; and when they are with you, you can possess no greater treasures.”

— Khalil Gibran

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

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435. “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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436. “Love is the veil between lover and lover.”

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437. “What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless?”

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438. “You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable. You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons. Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing.”

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439. “You are a flower crushed beneath the feet of the animal that is concealed in a human being. Take comfort, in that you are the flower crushed and not the foot that has crushed it.”

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440. “And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.”

— Khalil Gibran

441. “Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast It shall not be a glistening film that covers a wound, but an eyelid that guards the eye.”

— Khalil Gibran

442. “If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.”

— Khalil Gibran

443. “If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.”

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444. “Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.”

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445. “And your fragrance shall be my breath, And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.”

— Khalil Gibran

446. “My brothers, seek counsel of one another, for therein lies the way out of error and futile repentance. The wisdom of the many is your shield against tyranny. For when we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.”

— Khalil Gibran

447. “He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.”

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448. “He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.”

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449. “To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.”

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450. “What is fear of need but need itself?”

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