Top 73 Life Kahlil Gibran Quotes
#1. True beauty is a ray
That springs from the sacred depths of the soul,
and illuminates the body, just as life
springs from the kernel of a stone and
gives colour and scent to a flower.
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#2. Here love begins to render the prose of Life into hymns and canticles of praise
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#3. You want to know the meaning of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?
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#4. Dig anywhere in the earth and you will find a treasure, only you must dig with the faith of a peasant.
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#5. The breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.
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#6. People often say women want to be loved. But they really want much more. Many women want to bear children; and their very being wants to give children life. She often desires men just as a key to the child that is in her to give life to.
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#7. 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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#8. Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.
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#9. Learn the words of wisdom uttered by the wise and apply them in your own life. Live them - but do not a make a show of reciting them, for he who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass loaded with books.
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#10. I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the multitude. And I would not have the tears that sadness makes to flow from my every part turn into laughter. I would that my life remain a tear and a smile.
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#11. Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
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#12. That a woman's happiness does not come through man's glory and honour, nor through his generosity and affection, but through love that unites both of their hearts and affections, making them one member of life's body and one word upon the lips of God.
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#13. You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care, nor your nights without a want and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.
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#14. I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.
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#15. I have come to learn about things that intrigue people through their strangeness. But barley did I find myself in you presence than I understood that life is none other than the different manifestations of the universal spirit.
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#16. If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life.
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#17. Ready am I to go, and my eagerness with sails full set awaits the wind.
Only another breath will I breathe in this still air, only another loving look cast backward,
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#18. March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
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#19. Yesterday was a beautiful tune on the lips of life and today is a silent secret.
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#20. Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding ... 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
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#21. You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good, you are only loitering and sluggard.
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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
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#26. How can I lose faith in the justice of life, when the dreams of those who sleep upon feathers are not more beautiful than the dreams of those who sleep upon the earth?
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#27. Follow your heart. Your heart is the right guide in everything big
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#28. 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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#29. Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
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#30. He drank life from these breasts now dry, and he took his first steps in this garden, grasping these fingers that are now like trembling reeds.
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#31. Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
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#32. We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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#34. Surely there is no greater gift to a man than that which turns all his aims into parching lips and all life into a fountain.
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#36. Love is a magic ray
emitted from the burning core
of the soul
and illuminating
the surrounding earth.
It enables us
to perceive life
as a beautiful dream
between one awakening
and another.
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#37. Accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.
And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.
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#38. When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
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#39. And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream.
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#40. If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.
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#41. 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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#43. 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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#44. To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice
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#45. Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
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#46. 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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#47. Is life like this? Is it a past that goes by, then crumbles away, and a present that runs in the wake of the past, and a future that can only be grasped if one talks of it in the present or past tense?
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#48. People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
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#49. 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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#50. 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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#51. 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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#52. 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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#53. I too am my own forerunner, though I sit in the shadows of my trees and seem motionless.
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#54. 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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#55. 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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#56. Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.
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#57. How mean am I when life gives me gold and I give you silver, and yet I deem myself generous.
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#58. Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination.
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#59. Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering?
And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn?
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#60. Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself
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#61. Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
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#62. ABOUT: KAHLIL GIBRAN
"His power came from some great reservoir of spiritual life else it could not have been so universal and so potent, but the majesty and beauty of the language with which he clothed it were all his own."
Claude Bragdon
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#63. I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now.
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#64. Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
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#65. 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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#66. One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
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#67. And when you were a silent word upon Life's quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us and we came down the years throbbing with memories of yesterday and with longing for tomorrow, for yesterday was death conquered and tomorrow was birth pursued.
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#68. For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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#69. These are the believers in life and the bounty of life, and their coffer is never empty.
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#70. Life kisses our faces every morning. Yet, between morning and evening, she laughs at our sorrows.
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#71. For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.
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#72. 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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#73. If tragedy does not ensnare a man, if affliction does not agitate him, if love does not lay him down in the cradle of dreams, then his life is like a blank, white page in the book of existence. In that year I saw the
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