Khalil Gibran Quotes - Page 10

• Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.

  Khalil Gibran

  Ignorant, Arguing, Foolish

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• It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life. Now I know that I am the sphere, and all life in rhythmic fragments moves within me.

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  Moving, Yesterday, Spheres

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

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• You are a flower crushed beneath the feet of the animal that is concealed in a human being. Take comfort, in that you are the flower crushed and not the foot that has crushed it.

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  Flower, Animal, Feet

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

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  Love, Motivational, Family

  Prophet (1923) "On Work"

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• If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.

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  Heart, Desert, Audience

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

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• I use hate as a weapon to defend myself; had I been strong, I would never have needed that kind of weapon.

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  Strong, Hate, Use

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

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• He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life.

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  Heaven, Doe, Kingdoms

  Khalil Gibran “Khalil The Heretic”, Library of Alexandria

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• Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
  But your ears thirst for the sound of the heart's knowledge.
  You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.
  You would touch with your fingers the naked body of the dreams.

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  Dream, Heart, Night

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

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• Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness

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  Peace, Pain, Islands

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

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  Friendship, Real Friends, Purpose

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.92, Lulu.com

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• In the autumn I gathered all my sorrows and buried them in my garden. And when April returned and spring came to wed the earth, there grew in my garden beautiful flowers unlike all other flowers. And my neighbors came to behold them, and they all said to me, "When autumn comes again, at seeding time, will you not give us of the seeds of these flowers that we may have them in our gardens?"

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  Beautiful, Forgiveness, Spring

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• The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy.

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  Memories, Regret, Moving

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• Love has the power that dispels death; charm that conquers the enemy.

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  Love, Enemy, Conquer

  Khalil Gibran, “Peace XVIII”

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

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Truth

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

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• What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.

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  Inspirational, Men, Thinking

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• Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.

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  Beauty, Nature, Sheep

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

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  Fall, Writing, Mind

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

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• Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for the sake of the Truth? It is our inner selves that hurt us when we disobey it, and it kills us when we betray it.

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  Hurt, Truth, Fall

  "The Secrets of the Heart". Book by Khalil Gibran. Translated by Anthony R. Ferris, 1947.

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• Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower. Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved.

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  I Love You, Dream, Sweet

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

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• He that tries to seize an opportunity after it has passed him by is like one who sees it approach but will not go to meet it.

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  Opportunity, Trying, Approach

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• Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.

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  Sweet, Confused, Soul

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

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• Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.

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  Struggle, Men, Political

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

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  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

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  Spiritual, Loneliness, Men

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

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• Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.

  Khalil Gibran

  Attitude, Freedom, 4th Of July

  "The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul". Book by Kahlil Gibran, translated by Juan R. I. Cole. Chapter "The Vision", 1994.

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