Top 100 Quotes About Gibran
#1. 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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#3. 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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#4. Art is one step from the visibly known toward the unknown. MS-71
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#5. 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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#6. One may not reach the dawn save by path of night.
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#7. 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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#8. What is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?
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#9. The snow and the storm destroy the flower; but its seed they cannot kill.
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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons
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#15. 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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#16. He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.
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#17. 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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#18. Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.
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#19. And there are those who give with pain, and that pain is their baptism.
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#20. 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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#21. You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.
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#23. Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
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#24. 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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#25. Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.
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#26. All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand ...
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#27. Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
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#28. 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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#29. Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets.
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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.
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#33. 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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#34. The highest virtue here may be least in another world.
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#36. 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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#37. You need not fear, my love,
for never have the stars on high
told what they know.
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#38. How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.
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#39. 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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#40. 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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#41. Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun.
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#43. 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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#44. You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.
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#45. 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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#46. 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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#47. If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
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#48. 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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#49. 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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#50. Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.
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#51. 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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#52. 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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#53. 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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#54. Have you beauty, that leads the heart from things fashioned of wood and stone to the holy mountain?
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#55. 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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#56. There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.
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#57. 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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#59. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
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#60. 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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#61. It is in exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied.
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#62. 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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#63. The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard.
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#64. Philosophy's work is finding the shortest path between two points.
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#65. 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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#66. 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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#67. When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music.
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#68. You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth.
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#69. A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence?
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#70. 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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#71. 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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#72. Qualities of Good Citizens ... is to admire what others have created in love and faith
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#73. 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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#74. The resting place of my soul is a beautiful grove where my knowledge of you lives.
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#75. 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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#76. But how shall I, unless you yourselves be also the peacemakers, nay, the lovers of all your elements?
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#77. Make me, oh God, the prey of the Lion, ere you make the rabbit my prey
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#78. God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
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#79. Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.
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#80. 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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#81. I am the infinite sea, and all worlds are but grains of sand upon my shore.
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#82. 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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#83. I too am my own forerunner, though I sit in the shadows of my trees and seem motionless.
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#84. 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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#85. We are richer in material wealth than those villagers; but their spirit is a nobler spirit than ours. We
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#86. Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
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#87. Smile, my beloved, like the gold smiles from my father's coffers.
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#88. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.
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#89. 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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#91. 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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#92. And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
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#93. 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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#94. 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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#95. 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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#96. Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?
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#97. 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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#98. 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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#99. Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
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