Khalil Gibran Quotes - Page 18

• The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.

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  Inspirational, Stars, Greatness

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• Love prides itself not only in the one who loves, but also in the beloved.

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  Pride, Beloved

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• The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

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  Eye, Vision, World

  "If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People?". Book by John Lloyd, p. 103, 2009.

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• Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.

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  Motivational, Broken Heart, Joy

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

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• Let ignorance reproduce itself until it is weary of its own offspring.

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  Ignorance, Weary, Offspring

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

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• When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

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  Wings, Yield, May

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.22, Lulu.com

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• Your reason and your passion are your rudder and sails of your seafaring soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

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  Spiritual, Passion, Flames

  Khalil Gibran, “Reason And Passion XV”

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• Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?

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  Beautiful, Spiritual, Moon

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• Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

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  Love, Funny, Inspiring

  Khalil Gibran (2015). “A Tear And A Smile - Parables, Stories, and Poems of Khalil Gibran”, p.22, Editora Dracaena

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• Happiness is a myth we seek,
  If manifested surely irks;
  Like river speeding to the plain,
  On its arrival slows and murks.
  For man is happy only in
  His aspiration to the heights;
  When he attains his goal, he cools
  And longs for other distant flights.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Rob a neighbour with a smile.

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  Judgement, Neighbour

  Khalil Gibran (1918). “The Madman”, p.28, Library of Alexandria

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• And you receivers - and you are all receivers - assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives. Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings; For to be overmindful of your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has the free hearted earth for mother, and God for father.

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  Mother, Gratitude, Father

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

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• Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

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  Sad, Wall, Grief

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

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• Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.

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  Wisdom, Kindness, Mirrors

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

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• You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

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  Spiritual, Philosophy, Thought Provoking

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.96, Lulu.com

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• Life without Freedom is like a body without a soul, and Freedom without Thought is like a confused spirit. . . . Life, Freedom and Thought are three-in-one, and are everlasting and shall never pass away.

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  Life, Confused, Confusion

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• A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption.

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  Spiritual, World, May

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

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• I am forever walking upon these shores, Betwixt the sand and the foam, The high tide will erase my food prnts, And the wind will blow away the foam, But the sea and the shore will remain forver

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  Blow, Wind, Sea

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• Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

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  Pain, Struggle, Sun

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• The saint and the sinner are twin brothers...one was born but the moment before the other.

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  Brother, Judgement, Saint

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• He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.

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  Book, Knowledge, Doe

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• Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

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  Art, Native American, Steps

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• There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence of a virgin's spirit into a perpetual awareness that makes a person forget the past, for it kindles fiercely in the heart the sweet and overwhelming hope of the coming future.

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  Beautiful, Sweet, Heart

  Khalil Gibran “Khalil The Heretic”, Library of Alexandria

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• And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.

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  Inspirational, Imagination, Mountain

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

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• You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable. You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons. Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing.

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  Time, Watches, Spirit

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

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