Top 100 Khalil Gibran Quotes
#1. Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep."
Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"
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#2. 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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#4. Love is a sacred mystery.
To those who love, it remains forever wordless;
But to those who do not love, it may be but a heartless jest.
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#5. Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun.
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#6. Between the shores of the oceans and the summit of the highest mountain is a secret route that you must absolutely take before being one with the sons of the Earth.
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#7. God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
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#8. A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
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#9. I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.
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#10. The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
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#11. I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.
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#12. You, the strong, have I loved, though the marks of your iron hoofs are yet upon my flesh.
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#13. Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.
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#14. Give and Take ...
For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life
And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love
And to both, bee and flower,
the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy.
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#15. If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.
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#16. 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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#17. When you feel Jealousy is a sign that Love should have each other
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#19. We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.
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#20. The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.
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#21. Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery.
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#23. 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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#24. Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.
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#25. If we were to all sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality.
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#27. As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.
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#28. When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.
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#29. Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.
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#30. I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.
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#31. I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom; I am in comfort, I am in peace.
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#33. Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility.
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#34. 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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#35. In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings.
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#36. We who love Him beheld Him with these our eyes which He made to see; and we touched Him with these our hands which He taught to reach forth.
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#37. Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
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#39. I am bored with gabbers and their gab; my soul abhors them ... Is there any place where there is no traffic in empty talk? Is there on this earth one who does not worship himself talking?
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#40. He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.
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#41. And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.
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#42. He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.
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#44. Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east.
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#45. He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it.
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#46. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
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#47. Give me an ear and I will give you a Voice ...
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#48. The mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale.
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#49. Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end.
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#50. Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.
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#51. And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears listening to the silence and its choirs singing the hymns of time, intoning the praises of the firmament, revealing the secrets of the invisible.
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#52. Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?'
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#53. Unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.
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#54. Listen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.
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#55. When God created Man, he gave him Music as a language different from all other languages. And early man sang his glory in the wilderness; and drew the hearts of kings and moved them from their thrones.
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#56. Love is timeless ...
Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.
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#57. There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence of a virgin's spirit into a perpetual awareness that makes a person forget the past, for it kindles fiercely in the heart the sweet and overwhelming hope of the coming future.
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#58. When God threw me, a pebble, into this wondrous lake,
I disturbed its surface with countless circles.
But when I reached the depths,
I became very still.
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#59. They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
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#60. What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
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#61. Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.
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#62. Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.
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#63. I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure."
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#64. Love has the power that dispels death; charm that conquers the enemy.
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#65. We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.
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#66. In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe to all men.
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#68. When a man's hand touches the hand of a woman, they both touch the heart of eternity.
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#69. Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.
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#70. He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life.
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#71. Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
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#72. Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless? And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the center of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds?
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#73. My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my thirst. But in this burning that is never extinguished is a joy that never wanes.
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#74. Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.
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#75. Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb?
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#76. 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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#77. Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?
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#78. History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.
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#79. The best love come from the heart, not from the mouth.
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#80. Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower. Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved.
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#81. The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy.
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#82. 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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#83. What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
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#84. 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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#85. Life is but a sleep disturbed by dreaming, prompted by the will; the saddened soul with sadness hides it's secrets, and the gay, with thrill.
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#86. Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.
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#88. If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
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#89. The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.
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#90. Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf. For in that day you shall know the hidden purposes in all things. And you shall bless darkness as you would bless light.
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#91. If winter should say, 'Spring is in my heart,' who would believe winter?
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#92. Many are the fools who say that Jesus stood in His own path and opposed Himself; that He knew not His own mind, and in the absence of that knowledge confounded Himself.
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#94. 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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#95. Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
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#96. Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.
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#97. Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.
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#98. I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop.
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#99. They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see a slave sleeping, wake him and explain to him freedom.
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#100. When we oppose the hidden conscience, it does us hurt. When we betray it, it judges us.
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