Khalil Gibran Quotes - Page 13

• It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.

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  Giving, Joy, Understanding

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.36, Lulu.com

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• Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.

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  Passion, Funeral, Soul

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.54, Lulu.com

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• You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care, nor your nights without a want and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.

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  Depression, Grief, Night

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

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• When we oppose the hidden conscience, it does us hurt. When we betray it, it judges us.

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  Hurt, Judging, Judgement

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• There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.

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  Generosity, Giving, Desire

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

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• 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.

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  Men, Law, Bird

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• Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality

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  Laughing, Originality, Sin

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• In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of people's wrath.

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  Inspirational, Wrath, People

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• I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

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  Spiritual, Believe, Mountain Peaks

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

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• When you feel Jealousy is a sign that Love should have each other

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  Should Have, Should, Feels

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• And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless?

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  Life, Love Is, Undivided Love

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

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• The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remain hovering over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves. I am one of those who remembers those places regardless of distance or time.

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  Beautiful, Children, Distance

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• A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

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  Proportion, Humour

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

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

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  Faith, Stars, Heart

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• If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.

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  Men, Association, Yardsticks

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• Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.

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  Volcanoes, Enthusiasm, Grass

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• A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free.

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  Freedom, Men, Being Free

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• The philosopher's soul dwells in his head, the poet's soul is in his heart; the singer's soul lingers about his throat, but the soul of the dancer abides in all her body.

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  Heart, Dancer, Soul

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• Trickery succeeds sometimes, but it always commits suicide.

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  Suicide, Wisdom, Fun

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

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• Love descends upon our souls by the will of God and not by the demand or the plea of the individual.

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  Spiritual, Soul, Demand

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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.

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  Courage, Blood, Perfection

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• Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

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  Inspirational Love, Laughter, Wine

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

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• For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

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  Passion, Clock Is Ticking, Flames

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

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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.

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  Work, Generosity, Giving

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

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• Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

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  Heart, Night, Silence

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.86, Lulu.com

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