Top 100 Quotes About Gibran
#1. Only when you drink from the river of silence, shall you indeed sing. And, when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And, when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
-Khalid Gibran
Jean Sasson
#2. And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. - KAHLIL GIBRAN The Prophet
Jodi Picoult
#3. Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it.
Kahlil Gibran (Visions of the Prophet)
Kahlil Gibran
#4. 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
Claude Bragdon
#5. Although it may not seem like it, this isn't a story about darkness. It's about light. Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you. If you've never tasted bitterness, sweet is just another pleasant flavor on your tongue. One day I'm going to hold a lot of joy.
Karen Marie Moning
#6. I think Khalil Gibran stated it perfectly in The Prophet: Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
Wayne W. Dyer
#7. I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.
Quincy Jones
#8. And from that day to this, the wise men of Ishana say one to another secretly, "Is it not known, and has it not been said from of old, that Ishana is ruled by an enemy?"
-Khalil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran
#9. There should be three days a week when no one is allowed to say: 'What's your sign?' Violators would have their copies of Kahlil Gibran confiscated.
Dick Cavett
#10. Forget not that the earth likes to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Khalil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran
#11. Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you.
Karen Marie Moning
#12. The first part of my name, Khalil Gibran, seems to be paying huge dividends in terms of the artistic life of the poet from whom my name was inspired.
Khalil Gibran Muhammad
#13. ..i spill into
the kind of silence
only Khalil Gibran would understand.
Sanober Khan
#14. Work is love made visible. And what is it to work with love? the poet Khalil Gibran wrote. In the hospital, working with love sometimes requires putting people in danger.
Theresa Brown
#15. Khalil Gibran said that parents are like a bow, And children like arrows. The more the bow bends and stretches, the farther the arrow flies. I fly, not because I am special, but because they stretched for me.
Amish Tripathi
#16. If we were all to sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality. - Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran
#17. I always quoted to my parents from Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet." Your children are not your children. They come through you, but not from you. You can give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they come from a land that you cannot enter, not even in your wildest dreams.
Andrew Young
#18. Kahlil Gibran said, "When you are born, your work is placed in your heart." So, what is your work? Your purpose? Are you living it out the way your heart urges you to?
Wayne W. Dyer
#19. 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.
Kahlil Gibran
#21. 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!"
Khalil Gibran
#22. Art is one step from the visibly known toward the unknown. MS-71
Kahlil Gibran
#23. But the hunter was also the hunted,
For many of my arrows left my bow only to seek my own breast ...
Kahlil Gibran
#24. One may not reach the dawn save by path of night.
Khalil Gibran
#25. Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality
Khalil Gibran
#26. What is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?
Kahlil Gibran
#27. The snow and the storm destroy the flower; but its seed they cannot kill.
Khalil Gibran
#28. 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.
Kahlil Gibran
#29. Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames.
Khalil Gibran
#30. 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.
Khalil Gibran
#31. 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.
Kahlil Gibran
#32. Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons
Kahlil Gibran
#33. The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
Khalil Gibran
#34. He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.
Khalil Gibran
#35. 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.
Kahlil Gibran
#36. Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.
Kahlil Gibran
#37. And there are those who give with pain, and that pain is their baptism.
Kahlil Gibran
#38. 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.
Kahlil Gibran
#39. You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.
Kahlil Gibran
#41. Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Kahlil Gibran
#42. 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;
Kahlil Gibran
#43. Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.
Khalil Gibran
#44. All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand ...
Khalil Gibran
#45. Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
Kahlil Gibran
#46. Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path.
Kahlil Gibran
#47. Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets.
Kahlil Gibran
#48. 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.
Kahlil Gibran
#49. 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.
Kahlil Gibran
#50. Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.
Khalil Gibran
#51. 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.
Kahlil Gibran
#52. The highest virtue here may be least in another world.
Khalil Gibran
#54. TORCH The human soul is but a part of a burning torch which God separated from Himself at Creation. WM-ST-67
Kahlil Gibran
#55. You need not fear, my love,
for never have the stars on high
told what they know.
Kahlil Gibran
#56. How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.
Kahlil Gibran
#57. 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.
Khalil Gibran
#58. 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.
Kahlil Gibran
#59. Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun.
Khalil Gibran
#61. 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.
Kahlil Gibran
#62. You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.
Khalil Gibran
#63. 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.
Kahlil Gibran
#64. Come, let us drink the last raindrop tears from a narcissus cup and fill our souls with the songs of larks.
Kahlil Gibran
#65. If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Khalil Gibran
#66. For to stay, though the hours burn in the night, is to freeze and crystallize and be bound in a mould.
Kahlil Gibran
#67. 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.
Khalil Gibran
#68. Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.
Khalil Gibran
#69. 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.
Kahlil Gibran
#70. 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.
Kahlil Gibran
#71. 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.
Kahlil Gibran
#72. Have you beauty, that leads the heart from things fashioned of wood and stone to the holy mountain?
Kahlil Gibran
#73. And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair
Kahlil Gibran
#74. There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.
Kahlil Gibran
#75. 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.
Kahlil Gibran
#77. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
Kahlil Gibran
#78. 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.
Khalil Gibran
#79. It is in exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied.
Kahlil Gibran
#80. For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.
Kahlil Gibran
#81. The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard.
Khalil Gibran
#82. Philosophy's work is finding the shortest path between two points.
Khalil Gibran
#83. 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.
Khalil Gibran
#84. 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.
Khalil Gibran
#85. When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music.
Kahlil Gibran
#86. You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth.
Khalil Gibran
#87. A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence?
Kahlil Gibran
#88. 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.
Kahlil Gibran
#89. 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.
Khalil Gibran
#90. Qualities of Good Citizens ... is to admire what others have created in love and faith
Khalil Gibran
#91. 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.
Khalil Gibran
#92. The resting place of my soul is a beautiful grove where my knowledge of you lives.
Kahlil Gibran
#93. 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.
Khalil Gibran
#94. But how shall I, unless you yourselves be also the peacemakers, nay, the lovers of all your elements?
Kahlil Gibran
#95. Make me, oh God, the prey of the Lion, ere you make the rabbit my prey
Khalil Gibran
#96. God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
Khalil Gibran
#97. Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.
Kahlil Gibran
#98. 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.
Khalil Gibran
#99. I am the infinite sea, and all worlds are but grains of sand upon my shore.
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#100. 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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