Khalil Gibran Quotes - Page 21

• I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

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  Life, Spiritual, Wisdom

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

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• We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another, and no sunrise finds us where left by sunset. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of that tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind to be scattered.

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  Spiritual, Heart, Sunset

  Khalil Gibran, “The Farewell XXVIIi”

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• Cover me with soft earth, and let each handful be mixed With seeds ofjasmine, lilies, and myrtle; and when they Grow above me and thrive on my body's element they will Breathe the fragrance of my heart into space.

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  Heart, Space, Myrtle

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

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• And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?

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  Judgement, Misdeeds, Greater

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

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• I want every image to be the beginning of an unseen image.

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  Unseen, Want

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• The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body.

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  Fear, Wine, Soul

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

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• We who love Him beheld Him with these our eyes which He made to see; and we touched Him with these our hands which He taught to reach forth.

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  Eye, Hands, Taught

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

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• Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

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  Grieving, Rivers, Silence

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

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• Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf. For in that day you shall know the hidden purposes in all things. And you shall bless darkness as you would bless light.

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  Regret, Light, Darkness

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

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• Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.

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  Sunset, Rainbow, Soul

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• You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind.

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  Wind, House, Bereavement

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

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• The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.

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  Giving, Barren, Critics

  "Spiritual Sayings of Kahlil Gibran". Book by Kahlil Gibran, translated by Anthony R. Ferris, 1962.

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• Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

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  Inspiring, Time, Exhilaration

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

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• For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

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  Inspirational, Death, Spiritual

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

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• You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life.

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  Death, Heart, Secret

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

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• Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.

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  Teaching, Grows, Seeds

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• Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.

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  Self, Sea, Depth

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

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• They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Aggravation

  "Visualizing Categorical Data". Book by Michael Friendly, ch. 3.5, p. 85, 2000.

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• Humanity looks upon Jesus the Nazarene as a poor-born Who suffered misery and humiliation with all of the weak. And He is pitied, for Humanity believes He was crucified painfully. . . . And all that Humanity offers to Him is crying and wailing and lamentation. For centuries Humanity has been worshiping weakness in the person of the Savior. The Nazarene was not weak! He was strong and is strong! But the people refuse to heed the true meaning of strength.

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  Jesus, Strong, Believe

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• Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless? And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the center of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds?

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  Love, Moving, Power

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

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• Art is a step in the known toward the unknown

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  Art, Steps, Art Is

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• Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

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  Truth, Spring, Uprising

  "The Vision". Book by Kahlil Gibran, October 1, 1994.

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• And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.

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  Purpose, Spirit, Mystery

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

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• It is only when you are pursued that you become swift.

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  Speed, Pursued

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

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• My Lebanon is a flock of birds fluttering in the early morning as shepherds lead their sheep into the meadow & rising in the evening as farmers return from their fields and vineyards.You have your Lebanon and its people. I have my Lebanon and its people.

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  Morning, Sheep, People

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

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