Khalil Gibran Quotes - Page 16

• For a love to grow through the test of everyday living, one must respect that zone of privacy where one retires to relate to the inside instead of the outside.

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  Everyday, Tests, Privacy

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• you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

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  Freedom, Liberty, Skylarks

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.74, Lulu.com

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• God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.

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  Truth, Doors, Hands

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• If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day.

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  Men, Weakness, Fellow Man

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• Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

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  Spiritual, Pain, Philosophy

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.

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  Judging, Blame, Weakest Link

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

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• But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.

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  Love, Inspirational, Laughter

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.24, Lulu.com

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• Remember that Divinity is the true self of Man. It cannot be sold for gold; neither can it be heaped up as are the riches of the world today. The rich man has cast off his Divinity, and has clung to his gold. And the young today have forsaken their Divinity and pursue self-indulgence and pleasure.

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  Men, Self, Gold

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• Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?

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  Trust, Thirst, Dread

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

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• For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose windows are the songs and the silences of night.

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  Song, Morning, Night

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.56, Lulu.com

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• The longing for paradise is paradise itself.

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  Paradise, Longing

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• Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

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  Freedom, Liberty, Greater

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

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• Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse.

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  Relationship, Two, Pillars

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• Whoever would be a teacher of men let him begin by teaching himself before teaching others; and let him teach by example before teaching by word. For he who teaches himself and rectifies his own ways is more deserving of respect and reverence than he who would teach others and rectify their ways.

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  Respect, Teacher, Teaching

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• Your house is your larger body.

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  House, Body

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

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• Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?

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  Men, Reason, Habit

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• Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.

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  Tears, Genius, Irritated

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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.

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  Mother, Wisdom, Self

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• You have your ideology and I have mine.

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  Ideology, Mines

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• I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.

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  Life, Poet, Prose

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• Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.

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  Music, Heart, Roots

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

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• Believing is a fine thing, but placing those beliefs into execution is a test of strength. Many are those who talk like the roar of the sea, gut their lives are shallow and stagnant, like the rotting marshes. Many are those who lift their heads above the mountain tops, but their spirits remain dormant in the obscurity of the caverns.

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  Life, Believe, Sea

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• And if there come the singers, and the dancers and the flute players - buy of their gifts also. For they too are gatherers of fruit and frankincense, and that which they bring, though fashioned of dreams, is raiment and fod for your soul.

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  Dream, Player, Dancer

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

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• Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.

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  Life, Thinking, Poetry

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

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• My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me never to delight in praise or to be distressed by reproach. Before my Soul taught me, I doubted the value of my accomplishments until the passing days sent someone who would extol or disparage them. But now I know that trees blossom in the spring and give their fruits in the summer without any desire for accolades. And they scatter their leaves abroad in the fall and denude themselves in the winter without fear of reproof.

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  Summer, Spring, Fall

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

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