Khalil Gibran Quotes

• 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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  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

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  Love, Relationship, Smile

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• 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. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

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  Wisdom, Daughter, Dream

  Prophet (1923) "On Children"

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• How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.

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  Beautiful, Love You, Heart

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

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

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  Hate, Love Is, Lost

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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.

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  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  "Become a Conscious Creator: A Return to Self-Empowerment". Book by Lisa Ford, 2007.

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• God made the world with a heart full of love,
  Then He looked down from Heaven above,
  And saw that we all need a helping hand,
  Someone to share with, who'll understand.
  He made special people to see us through
  The glad times and the sad times, too;
  A person on whom we can always depend,
  Someone we can call a friend.
  God made friends so we'll carry a part
  Of His perfect love in all our hearts.

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  Heart, Hands, Special People

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• Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

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  Thinking, Worry, Anxiety

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• 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.

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  Sea, Rainbow, Poetry

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• And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.

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  Love You, Enemy, Love Your Enemies

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• We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.

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  Vision, Ability

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• All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.

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  All Things, Universe

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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 to what he does not say.

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  Reality, Understanding, Listening

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.

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  Spiritual, Heart, Miracle

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.

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  Tortoises, Speed, Hares

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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.

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  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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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.

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  Love, Moving On, Marriage

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• Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another ruler with trumpetings again. Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strong men are yet in the cradle. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.

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  Art, Strong, Farewell

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• It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

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  Love, Spiritual, Emotional

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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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.

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  Moving On, Sympathy, Broken Heart

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com

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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. Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater." But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy.

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  Heart, Joy, Sorrow

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress." And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without." At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty."

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  Beauty, Pain, Oysters

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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.

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  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.

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  People, Far Away

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