Top 100 Gibran Kahlil Quotes
#1. Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."
"Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving
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#2. 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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#3. 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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#4. People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
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#5. He who has not been bitten by the serpents of light and snapped at by the wolves of darkness will always be deceived by the days and the nights.
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#6. My first glimpse of you was not in truth the first. The hour in which our hearts met confirmed in me the belief in Eternity and in the immortality of the Soul.
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#7. Do not limp before the lame, deeming it a kindness.
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#8. Trust in dreams, for in them is the hidden gate to eternity.
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#9. MADNESS Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity." The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means. SP-ST-62
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#10. Now I know that here is something higher than heaven and deeper than ocean and stranger than life and death and time. I know now what I did not know before.
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#11. Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
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#13. Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
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#14. There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.
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#15. Defeat, my defeat, my deathless courage, You and I shall laugh together with the storm, And together we shall dig graves for all that die in us, and we shall stand in the sun with a will, And we shall be dangerous
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#16. Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?
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#17. 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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#18. They say: 'If a man knew himself,
he would know all mankind.'
I say: 'If a man loved mankind,
he would know something of himself.
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#19. Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
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#20. And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
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#21. Some believe that art is the imitation of nature; in fact, nature is so sublime that it cannot be imitated. However noble it may be, art cannot perform a single one of the miracles of nature. And besides, why imitate nature when it can be perceived by all those endowed with senses?
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#23. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.
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#24. Smile, my beloved, like the gold smiles from my father's coffers.
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#25. We are richer in material wealth than those villagers; but their spirit is a nobler spirit than ours. We
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#26. To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice
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#27. We cannot ask thee for aught, for thou knowest our needs before they are born in us:
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#28. You are blind and I am deaf and dumb, so let us touch hands and understand.
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#30. If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet if I extend a hand which is full and yet find no one to receive it, then that is hopelessness.
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#31. 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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#32. Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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#33. The feelings we live through
in love and in loneliness
are simply, for us,
what high tide
and low tide are to the sea.
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#35. Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.
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#36. And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain.
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#37. God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.
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#38. 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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#39. Hurry, oh peaceful Death, and carry me from these multitudes who left me in the dark corner of oblivion because I do not bleed the weak as they do. Come, oh gentle Death, and enfold me under your white wings, for my fellowmen are not in want of me. Embrace
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#40. Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
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#41. IF any of you would bring to judgment the unfaithful wife, Let him also weigh the heart of her husband in scales, and measure his soul with measurements.
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#42. Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.
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#43. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.
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#44. Her bones were of bronze and her sinews of the ancient elms, and her eyes were like the sky, wide and daring.
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#45. Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love.
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#46. When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
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#47. We have heard her shouting among the mountains,
And with her cries came the sound of hoofs, and the beating of wings and the roaring of lions.
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#48. 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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#49. Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
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#50. The Infinite keeps naught save Love, for it is in its own likeness.
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#51. You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.
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#52. 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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#53. How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.
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#54. You need not fear, my love,
for never have the stars on high
told what they know.
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#55. TORCH The human soul is but a part of a burning torch which God separated from Himself at Creation. WM-ST-67
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#56. The musician may sing to you of the rhythm which is in all space, but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rhythm, nor the voice that echoes it.
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#57. The most wonderful thing, Mary, is that you and I are always walking together, hand in hand, in a strangely beautiful world, unknown to other people. We both stretch one hand to receive from Life - and Life is generous indeed.
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#58. ALMUSTAFA, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his birth.
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#59. Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets.
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#60. Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path.
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#61. Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
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#62. To follow Beauty even when she shall lead you to the verge of the precipice; and though she is winged and you are wingless, and though she shall pass beyond the verge, follow her, for where Beauty is not, there is nothing;
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#63. Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
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#65. And if it is for your comfort to pour your darkness into space, it is also for your delight to pour forth the dawning of your heart.
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#66. And there are those who give with pain, and that pain is their baptism.
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#67. Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.
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#68. The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
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#69. Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons
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#70. Only another breath will I breathe in this still air, only another loving look cast backward, And then I shall stand among you a seafarer among seafarers.
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#71. 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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#72. What is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?
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#73. But the hunter was also the hunted,
For many of my arrows left my bow only to seek my own breast ...
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#74. Art is one step from the visibly known toward the unknown. MS-71
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#77. I too am my own forerunner, though I sit in the shadows of my trees and seem motionless.
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#78. In the summer heat the reapers say, We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair.
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#79. I am the infinite sea, and all worlds are but grains of sand upon my shore.
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#80. Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.
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#81. But how shall I, unless you yourselves be also the peacemakers, nay, the lovers of all your elements?
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#82. The resting place of my soul is a beautiful grove where my knowledge of you lives.
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#83. And let your board stand an altar on which the pure and the innocent of forest and plain are sacrificed for that which is purer and still more innocent in man.
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#84. A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence?
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#85. When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music.
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#86. For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.
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#87. It is in exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied.
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#88. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
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#89. And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.
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#90. No human relation gives one possession in another - every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.
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#91. There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.
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#92. And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair
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#93. Have you beauty, that leads the heart from things fashioned of wood and stone to the holy mountain?
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#94. Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.
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#95. If it were not for our conception of weights and measures we would stand in awe of the firefly as we do before the sun.
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#96. And verily he will find the roots of the good and the bad, the fruitful and the fruitless, all entwined together in the silent heart of the earth.
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#97. For to stay, though the hours burn in the night, is to freeze and crystallize and be bound in a mould.
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#98. Come, let us drink the last raindrop tears from a narcissus cup and fill our souls with the songs of larks.
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#99. Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed?
See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.
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#100. In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.
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