Khalil Gibran Quotes - Page 14

• For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered? Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountaintop,then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shal claim your limbs,then shall you truly dance.

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  Wind, Breathing, Rivers

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.128, Lulu.com

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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 soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.

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  War, Passion, Soul

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

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  Volcanoes, Enthusiasm, Grass

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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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• It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.

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  Needs, Hunger And Thirst, Next

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• The wolves prey upon the lambs in the darkness of the night, but the blood stains remain upon the stones in the valley until the dawn comes, and the sun reveals the crime to all.

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  Night, Blood, Darkness

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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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• 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.

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  Daughter, Mother, Children

  The Prophet "On Children" (1923)

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• Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a spirit who dwells in the soul, whose nourishment is the heart, whose wine is affection. Poetry that comes not in this form is a false messiah.

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  Heart, Wine, Soul

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• Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.

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  Life, Butterfly, Dark

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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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• 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.

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  Love, Life, Nature

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• Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

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  Love, Marriage, Wedding

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• Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” “Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving

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  Love, Life, Running

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• Everyone has experienced that truth: that love, like a running brook, is disregarded, taken for granted; but when the brook freezes over, then people begin to remember how it was when it ran, and they want it to run again.

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  Love, Running, Taken

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

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  Appreciation, Heart, People

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• 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.

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  Fire, Mouths, Might

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• For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.

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  Food, Humor, Men

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.46, Lulu.com

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• And now you ask in your heart, ‘How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good?’ Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower, But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee. For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life, And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love, And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy. * People of Orphalese, be in your pleasures like the flowers and the bees.

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  Flower, Heart, Garden

  Khalil Gibran, “Pleasure XXIV”

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• Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' Say not, ' I have found the path of the soul.' Say rather, 'I have met the soul walking upon my path.' For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Journey

  Khalil Gibran, “Self-Knowledge XVII”

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• When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay. And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart; For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed. When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

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  Friendship, Heart, Grieving

  Khalil Gibran, “Friendship IXX”

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• As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.

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  Friends, Increase, Decrease

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• Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

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  Pain, Heart, Hard Times

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

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