Top 100 Gibran Khalil Gibran Quotes
#1. The sea that calls all things unto her cals me, and I must embark.
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#2. Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.
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#3. 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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#4. Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.
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#5. 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.
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#6. Those to whom worshiping is a window, to open but also to shut, have not yet visited the house of their souls whose windows are open from dawn to dawn.
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#7. To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets.
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#8. Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.
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#9. He was gentle, like a man mindful of his own strength. In my dreams I beheld the kings of the earth standing in awe in His presence.
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#10. What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.
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#11. 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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#12. Reason is not like the goods sold in the market places
the more plentiful they are, the less they are worth. Reason's worth waxes with her abundance. But were she sold in the market, it is only the wise man who would understand her true value.
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#13. If I could take your troubles
I would toss them into the sea,
But all these things I'm finding
Are impossible for me.
I cannot build a mountain
Or catch a rainbow fair,
But let me be what I know best,
A friend that is always there.
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#14. Trickery succeeds sometimes, but it always commits suicide.
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#16. In a dream I saw Jesus and My God Pan sitting together in the heart of the forest. They laughed at each other's speech, with the brook that ran near them, and the laughter of Jesus was the merrier. And they conversed long.
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#17. Remember that Divinity is the true self of Man. It cannot be sold for gold; neither can it be heaped up as are the riches of the world today. The rich man has cast off his Divinity, and has clung to his gold. And the young today have forsaken their Divinity and pursue self-indulgence and pleasure.
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#18. Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery.
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#19. A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.
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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. Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.
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#22. When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
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#23. God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.
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#24. We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.
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#25. I want every image to be the beginning of an unseen image.
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#26. He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.
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#27. The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.
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#28. Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born.
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#29. We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.
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#30. 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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#31. Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
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#32. The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
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#33. Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
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#34. God has given you a spirit with wings on which to soar into the spacious firmament of Love and Freedom. Is it not pitiful than that you cut your wings with your own hands and suffer your soul to crawl like an insect upon the earth?
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#35. If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.
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#36. 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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#38. The saint and the sinner are twin brothers ... one was born but the moment before the other.
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#39. Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.
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#40. My Lebanon is a flock of birds fluttering in the early morning as shepherds lead their sheep into the meadow & rising in the evening as farmers return from their fields and vineyards.You have your Lebanon and its people. I have my Lebanon and its people.
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#41. The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.
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#42. And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement. They should remember their pleasures with gratitude, as they would the harvest of a summer.
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#43. The ageless melody, unheard, heals; the healing vision, unseen, leads; the true leaders, immortal, know ...
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#44. 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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#45. When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.
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#46. The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness ...
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#47. As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.
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#48. Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
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#50. Limited love asks for possession of the beloved, but the unlimited asks only for itself.
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#51. The highest virtue here may be least in another world.
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#52. 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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#53. Philosophy's work is finding the shortest path between two points.
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#54. The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard.
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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.
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#58. A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks; but the face which, in silence, does not announce hidden mysteries is not beautiful, regardless of the symmetry of its features.
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#59. If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
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#60. You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.
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#61. Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun.
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#62. 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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#64. A word I want to see written on my grave: I am alive like you, and I am standing beside you. Close your eyes and look around, you will see me in front of you.
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#65. Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.
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#66. All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand ...
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#67. Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.
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#69. He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.
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#70. The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
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#71. 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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#72. 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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#73. The snow and the storm destroy the flower; but its seed they cannot kill.
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#74. Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality
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#75. One may not reach the dawn save by path of night.
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#76. 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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#77. Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?
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#79. Some think I wink at them when I shut my eyes to avoid their sight.
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#80. When you feel Jealousy is a sign that Love should have each other
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#81. 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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#82. If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.
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#84. 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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#85. Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.
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#86. You, the strong, have I loved, though the marks of your iron hoofs are yet upon my flesh.
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#87. I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.
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#88. The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
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#89. 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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#90. A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
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#91. Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.
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#92. Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
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#93. Now I realize that the trees blossom in Spring and bear fruit in Summer without seeking praise; and they drop their leaves in Autumn and become naked in Winter without fearing blame.
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#94. God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
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#95. Make me, oh God, the prey of the Lion, ere you make the rabbit my prey
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#96. A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.
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#97. The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him he will unfold his wings and fly back to his dwelling place.
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#98. Qualities of Good Citizens ... is to admire what others have created in love and faith
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#99. The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body.
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#100. You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth.
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