Top 100 Kahlil Gibran Quotes
#1. Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do.
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#2. 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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#3. Smile, my beloved, like the gold smiles from my father's coffers.
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#4. The human heart cries out for help; the human soul implores us for deliverance; but we do not heed their cries, for we neither hear nor understand. But the man who hears and understands we call mad, and flee from him.
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#5. Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
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#7. I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.
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#8. For how can a tyrant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride?
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#9. Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy
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#10. I have loved humanity, I have loved it so much. For me, there are three kinds of men; he who curses life, he who blesses it and he who contemplates it. I loved the first for his wretchedness, the second for his indulgence and the third for his perception.
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#11. God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.
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#12. Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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#13. The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remain hovering over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves. I am one of those who remembers those places regardless of distance or time.
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#14. No matter how busy a man is, he is never too busy to stop and talk about how busy he is.
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#15. For affliction has opened my eyes,
and tears given me sight.
Grief has taught me the language of hearts.
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#16. 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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#17. It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life. Now I know that I am the sphere, and all life in rhythmic fragments moves within me.
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#18. Nor is it a thought I leave behind me, but a heart made sweet with hunger and with thirst.
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#19. Man's needs change, but not his love, nor his desire that his love should satisfy his needs.
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#20. He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.
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#21. Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it.
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#22. You may judge others only according to your knowledge of yourself.
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#23. Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
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#24. Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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#26. Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.
And how else can it be?
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
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#27. The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.
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#30. You who travel with the wind, what weather vane shall direct your course?
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#31. When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
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#32. They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
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#33. They dip their pens in our hearts and think they are inspired.
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#34. Shall there come a day when wise men are able to unite the dreams of youth and the delights of learning as reproach brings together hearts in conflict? Shall there come a day when man's teacher is nature, and humanity is his book
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#35. If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.
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#36. How mean am I when life gives me gold and I give you silver, and yet I deem myself generous.
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#37. 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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#38. Would that you could live on the fragrance of the earth, and like an air plant be sustained by the light.
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#39. Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight more in breaking them.
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#40. Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem
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#41. Yet in truth you spoke not of her but of needs unsatisfied,
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#42. attracted by the body and repelled by the spirit,
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#43. Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
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#44. For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose windows are the songs and the silences of night.
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#45. You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.
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#46. Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born
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#47. Speak not of peoples and laws and
Kingdoms, for the whole earth is
My birthplace and all humans are
My brothers.
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#48. To you the earth yields her fruit, and you shall not want if you but know how to fill your hands.
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#49. Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.
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#50. Only love and death, are capable of changing everything.
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#51. Hypocrisy is your religion, and
Falsehood is your life, and
Nothingness is your ending; why,
Then, are you living? Is not
Death the sole comfort of the
Miserables?
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#52. The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.
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#53. The hidden well-spring of your soul must needs rise and run murmuring to the sea;
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#54. But let there be no scales to weigh your unknown treasure.
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#55. My soul counselled me and instructed me to see that the light
which I carry is not my light,
That my song was not created within me;
For though I travel with the light, I am not the light.
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#56. And then a scholar said, "Speak of talking." And he answered, saying: "And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime.
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#57. And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
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#58. Shall I come to you, a boundless drop to a boundless ocean.
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#59. When a man destroys his fellow, people say that such a one is a murderer. When one set in authority destroys, it is said that this one is a faithful judge.
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#60. I hope I will live long and be able to do some things worthy of giving to you who is giving so much to me.
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#61. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
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#62. Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
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#63. We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting
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#64. He suffered much, but he understood the mystery of pain: he knew that tears make all things shine.
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#65. Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
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#66. I abstain from the people who consider insolence bravery and tenderness cowardice. And I abstain from those who consider chatter wisdom and silence ignorance.
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#67. Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.
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#68. You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
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#69. All you have shall some day be given; therefore give now that the season of giving is yours and not your inheritors.
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#70. 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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#71. 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 food for your soul.
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#72. 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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#73. It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house.
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#74. And seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line.
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#75. 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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#76. What shall i say of these save that they too stand in the sunlight, but with their backs to the sun?
They see only their shadows, and their shadows are their laws.
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#77. Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many are the children of my longing that walk naked among these hills, and I cannot withdraw from them without a burden and an ache.
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#78. My God, my aim and my fulfillment; I am thy yesterday and thou are my tomorrow. I am they root in the earth and thou art my flower in the sky, and together we grow before the face of the sun.
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#79. We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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#80. When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.
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#81. Humanity is a brilliant river
Singing its way and carrying with
It the mountains' secrets into
The heart of the sea; but you,
My Countrymen, are stagnant
Marshes invested with insects
And vipers.
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#82. And he to whom worshipping is a window, to open but also to shut, has not yet visited the house of his soul whose windows are from dawn to dawn.
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#83. For if you should enter the temple for no other purpose than asking you shall not receive:
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#84. What is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
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#85. And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;
And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.
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#86. I have yet to meet an ignorant man whose roots are not embedded in my soul.
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#87. Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
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#88. For God opens the doors of truth to him who knocks with the hand of faith
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#89. And he said, "The joy of scaring is a deep and lasting one, and I never tire of it."
Said I, after a minute of thought, "It is true; for I too have known that joy."
Said he, "Only those who are stuffed with straw can know it.
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#92. Do not the spirits who dwell in the ether envy man his pain?
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#93. I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.
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#94. It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.
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#95. Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
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#96. 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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#97. 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.
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#98. You are far, far greater than you know - and all is well.
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#100. For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life's procession that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite.
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