Quotes by

KAHLIL GIBRAN
"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever."

- Kahlil Gibran

powerful, life

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"Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers."

- Kahlil Gibran

life, sacrifies

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"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. "

- Kahlil Gibran

pride, generosity

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"The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is."

- Kahlil Gibran

eye, bigger

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"You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance."

- Kahlil Gibran

gratitude, prayer, abundance

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"You have your ideology and I have mine."

- Kahlil Gibran

you, mine

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"The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master."

- Kahlil Gibran

comfort, master,

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"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."

- Kahlil Gibran

heart, sorrow, truth, weeping, sympathy

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"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

- Kahlil Gibran

heartbreak, lost-love, parting, emotion, depth

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"Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love."

- Kahlil Gibran

marriage, love is, will

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"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work."

- Kahlil Gibran

work, joy, life

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"All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind."

- Kahlil Gibran

words, mine, fall

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"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind."

- Kahlil Gibran

wise, teacher, knowledge, learning

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"Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth."

- Kahlil Gibran

window,

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"Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all."

- Kahlil Gibran

life, daily

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"Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain."

- Kahlil Gibran

wisdom, truth, understanding

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"There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. "

- Kahlil Gibran

joy, reward, giving, give

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"When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you."

- Kahlil Gibran

marriage, wings, you

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"When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?"

- Kahlil Gibran

love, god, religion, work

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"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding"

- Kahlil Gibran

wisdom, truth, understanding

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"The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply."

- Kahlil Gibran

someone, seen, never

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"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."

- Kahlil Gibran

brother, pain

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"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."

- Kahlil Gibran

generosity, you

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"And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

- Kahlil Gibran

earth, gardening, hair, forget, wind

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"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. "

- Kahlil Gibran

suffering, most, scar, soul

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"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes."

- Kahlil Gibran

equality, life, poverty

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"To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice."

- Kahlil Gibran

live, look

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"Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them."

- Kahlil Gibran

advice, most

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"But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls "

- Kahlil Gibran

relationship, sea, marriage

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"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."

- Kahlil Gibran

step, obvious

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"Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness."

- Kahlil Gibran

kindness, happiness

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"Your friend is your needs answered."

- Kahlil Gibran

friend, needs

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"Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man."

- Kahlil Gibran

love, money

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"Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow."

- Kahlil Gibran

gardening, grass, peak

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"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking."

- Kahlil Gibran

hearth, thinking,

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"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."

- Kahlil Gibran

choose, life

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"Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'"

- Kahlil Gibran

depth, growth, powtry, soul,

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"The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God."

- Kahlil Gibran

god, people, love

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"Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood."

- Kahlil Gibran

path, perfection

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"If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved."

- Kahlil Gibran

death, survival, more

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"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."

- Kahlil Gibran

attitude, mind

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"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. "

- Kahlil Gibran

mountain, dance, silence

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"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself."

- Kahlil Gibran

selfish, laugh, wise

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"When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies."

- Kahlil Gibran

together, another

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"The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather what he does not say."

- Kahlil Gibran

understanding, reality, do, action

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"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."

- Kahlil Gibran

politics, liberty, life

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"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream"

- Kahlil Gibran

today, tomorrow, time, yesterday

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"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."

- Kahlil Gibran

children, greatness

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"The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom."

- Kahlil Gibran

god, religion, learning

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"Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms."

- Kahlil Gibran

mother, self

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"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. "

- Kahlil Gibran

parenting, children, life

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"Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."

- Kahlil Gibran

marriage, sea, moving

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"They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve."

- Kahlil Gibran

me, sharp

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"Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be."

- Kahlil Gibran

embrace, being

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"Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge."

- Kahlil Gibran

wise, beginning

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"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity"

- Kahlil Gibran

friendship, opportunity

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"All that spirits desire, spirits attain."

- Kahlil Gibran

spires, attain

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"Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self."

- Kahlil Gibran

moving on, pain, self, sickness

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"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."

- Kahlil Gibran

sadness, wall

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"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."

- Kahlil Gibran

art, silence

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"Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds."

- Kahlil Gibran

seeds, sow

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"Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms."

- Kahlil Gibran

doubt, been

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"Love is trembling happiness."

- Kahlil Gibran

happiness, love is, solitude

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"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."

- Kahlil Gibran

aspires, heart, mind

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"If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?"

- Kahlil Gibran

heart, flowers, openess, motivational

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"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."

- Kahlil Gibran

wise, knowledge, worth

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"For life and death are one even as the river and the sea are one"

- Kahlil Gibran

death, sea, life

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"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."

- Kahlil Gibran

purpose, spirit, friend

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"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being."

- Kahlil Gibran

human, death, beautiful, most

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"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."

- Kahlil Gibran

truth, beauty, inspirational

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"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires."

- Kahlil Gibran

dreamer, without

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"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."

- Kahlil Gibran

children, life, parenting,

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"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."

- Kahlil Gibran

life, fear

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"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary."

- Kahlil Gibran

pain, poetry

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"What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?"

- Kahlil Gibran

soul, my soul

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"Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents."

- Kahlil Gibran

road, turn

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"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair"

- Kahlil Gibran

forget, earth, hair

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"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."

- Kahlil Gibran

teacher, silence

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"Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof."

- Kahlil Gibran

knowledge, heart

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"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."

- Kahlil Gibran

truth, beauty, rebellion, inspirational

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"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."

- Kahlil Gibran

mirror, eternity

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"No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge."

- Kahlil Gibran

man, you

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"Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do."

- Kahlil Gibran

generosity, me

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"Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking."

- Kahlil Gibran

water, me

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"When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has b"

- Kahlil Gibran

sad, deep, joy, sorrow

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"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. "

- Kahlil Gibran

brainy, will

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"If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember."

- Kahlil Gibran

forget, you

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"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."

- Kahlil Gibran

desert, first, country

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"Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people."

- Kahlil Gibran

death, people, honor

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"I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end."

- Kahlil Gibran

end, death, inspirational

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"A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?"

- Kahlil Gibran

mountain, sometimes, friends

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"If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song."

- Kahlil Gibran

together, memory, me

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"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were."

- Kahlil Gibran

moving on, you, romance, life

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"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit"

- Kahlil Gibran

love, love you, religion

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"Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper."

- Kahlil Gibran

lost, temper

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"The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold."

- Kahlil Gibran

gold, men

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"What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?"

- Kahlil Gibran

world, me, know

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"Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration."

- Kahlil Gibran

face, been

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"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."

- Kahlil Gibran

work, joy, life

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"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit"

- Kahlil Gibran

life, love, love is

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"And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

- Kahlil Gibran

romantic, own, emotion, lost love

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"If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."

- Kahlil Gibran

wind, tree

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"Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert."

- Kahlil Gibran

spring, desert

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"Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation."

- Kahlil Gibran

life, greatness

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