Top 100 Quotes About Khalil
#1. Well, Dude," said Khalil, "sometimes you just have to get over shit
Thea Harrison
#2. DeVante. Khalil. Neither one of them thought they had much of a choice. If I were them, I'm not sure I'd make a much better one. Guess that makes me a thug too.
Angie Thomas
#3. Once upon a time there was a hazel-eyed boy with dimples. I called him Khalil. The world called him a thug.
He lived, but not nearly long enough, and for the rest of my life I'll remember how he died.
Fairy tale? No. But I'm not giving up on a better ending.
Angie Thomas
#4. A hairbrush.
Khalil died over a fucking hairbrush.
Angie Thomas
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Forget not that the earth likes to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Khalil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran
#8. 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
#9. ..i spill into
the kind of silence
only Khalil Gibran would understand.
Sanober Khan
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. One may not reach the dawn save by path of night.
Khalil Gibran
#14. Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality
Khalil Gibran
#15. The snow and the storm destroy the flower; but its seed they cannot kill.
Khalil Gibran
#16. Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames.
Khalil Gibran
#17. 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
#18. The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
Khalil Gibran
#19. He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.
Khalil Gibran
#21. Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.
Khalil Gibran
#22. All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand ...
Khalil Gibran
#23. Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.
Khalil Gibran
#24. The highest virtue here may be least in another world.
Khalil Gibran
#26. 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
#27. Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun.
Khalil Gibran
#28. You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.
Khalil Gibran
#29. If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Khalil Gibran
#30. 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
#31. Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.
Khalil Gibran
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard.
Khalil Gibran
#35. Philosophy's work is finding the shortest path between two points.
Khalil Gibran
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth.
Khalil Gibran
#39. 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
#40. Qualities of Good Citizens ... is to admire what others have created in love and faith
Khalil Gibran
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. Make me, oh God, the prey of the Lion, ere you make the rabbit my prey
Khalil Gibran
#44. God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
Khalil Gibran
#45. 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
#46. I'm definitely looking to put together a full season. I know what I'm capable of doing. I want to be the kind of player my teammates can depend on.
Khalil Greene
#47. Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Khalil Gibran
#48. 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.
Khalil Gibran
#49. A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
Khalil Gibran
#50. 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.
Khalil Gibran
#51. The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
Khalil Gibran
#52. I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.
Khalil Gibran
#53. You, the strong, have I loved, though the marks of your iron hoofs are yet upon my flesh.
Khalil Gibran
#54. Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.
Khalil Gibran
#55. Power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end.
Khalil
#56. 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.
Khalil Gibran
#58. If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.
Khalil Gibran
#59. 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.
Khalil Gibran
#60. When you feel Jealousy is a sign that Love should have each other
Khalil Gibran
#61. Some think I wink at them when I shut my eyes to avoid their sight.
Khalil Gibran
#63. 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?
Khalil Gibran
#64. Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.
Khalil Gibran
#65. I want every image to be the beginning of an unseen image.
Khalil Gibran
#66. We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.
Khalil Gibran
#67. God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.
Khalil Gibran
#68. When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
Khalil Gibran
#69. Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.
Kahlil Gibran
#70. 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.
Khalil Gibran
#71. A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.
Khalil Gibran
#72. Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery.
Khalil Gibran
#73. 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.
Khalil Gibran
#74. 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.
Khalil Gibran
#76. The sea that calls all things unto her cals me, and I must embark.
Khalil Gibran
#77. 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.
Khalil Gibran
#78. 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.
Khalil Gibran
#79. 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.
Khalil Gibran
#80. What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.
Khalil Gibran
#81. 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.
Khalil Gibran
#82. Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.
Khalil Gibran
#83. To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets.
Khalil Gibran
#84. 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.
Khalil Gibran
#85. 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.
Khalil Gibran
#86. The cops performed an illegal search and seizure. Brian was sobbing and lamenting about how his life was over. I honestly didn't see the big deal. It was just pot for God's sake! Clearly, I had never been to Texas. I felt bad for Brian. "Look, man," I said, "just bail me out and
Khalil Rafati
#87. Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.
Khalil Gibran
#88. If we were to all sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality.
Khalil Gibran
#89. Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.
Khalil Gibran
#90. Trickery succeeds sometimes, but it always commits suicide.
Khalil Gibran
#91. Limited love asks for possession of the beloved, but the unlimited asks only for itself.
Khalil Gibran
#93. Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
Khalil Gibran
#94. As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.
Khalil Gibran
#95. The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness ...
Khalil Gibran
#96. When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.
Khalil Gibran
#97. 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.
Khalil Gibran
#98. The ageless melody, unheard, heals; the healing vision, unseen, leads; the true leaders, immortal, know ...
Khalil Gibran
#99. I have learned that the place where I subsist is all places, and the space I occupy is all intervals.
Khalil
#100. 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.
Khalil Gibran
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