Khalil Gibran Quotes - Page 24

• Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Knowledge

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• If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.

  Khalil Gibran

  Thrones, Firsts, Tyranny

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

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• And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

  Khalil Gibran

  Relationship, Marriage, Dance

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

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• Our God, who art our winged self, it is thy will in us that willeth.
  It is thy desire in us that desireth.
  It is thy urge in us that would turn our nights, which are thine, into days which are thine also.
  We cannot ask thee for aught, for thou knowest our needs before they are born in us:
  Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all.

  Khalil Gibran

  Art, Night, Self

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

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• Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational Love, Grief, Wine

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

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• Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen to the other because our heart-threads had become weak and even breathing would have broken them.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Breathing, Earthquakes

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

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• The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain... When you are joyous look deep into your heart and you will find that it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Inspirational Love, Heart

  Khalil Gibran, “Joy And Sorrow Chapter VIII”

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• He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wall, Looks, Path

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• Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

  Khalil Gibran

  Pain, Self, Sick

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

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• She danced the dance of flames and fire,
  and the dance of swords and spears;
  she danced the dance of stars and the dance of space,
  and then she danced the dance of flowers in the wind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dance, Stars, Flower

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• Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Sacrifice, Body

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• No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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

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• Defeat, my defeat, my deathless courage, You and I shall laugh together with the storm, And together we shall dig graves for all that die in us, and we shall stand in the sun with a will, And we shall be dangerous

  Khalil Gibran

  Laughing, Storm, Together

  Khalil Gibran (1918). “The Madman”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

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• Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.

  Khalil Gibran

  Philosophy, Science, Technology

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• Know, therefore, that from the greater silence I shall return... Forget not that I shall come back to you... A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wind, Silence, Littles

  Khalil Gibran, “The Farewell XXVIIi”

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• And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

  Khalil Gibran

  Passion, Phoenix, Ashes

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

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• The soul is an embryo in the body of Man, and the day of death is the Day of awakening, for it is the Great era of labour and the rich Hour of creation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Men, Soul, Body

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• For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

  Khalil Gibran

  Parenting, Yesterday, Bows And Arrows

  'The Prophet' (1923) 'On Children'

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• Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Doubt is a foundling unhappy and astray, and though his own mother who gave him birth should find him and enfold him, he would withdraw in caution and in fear.

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  Mother, Lonely, Brother

  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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• If winter should say, 'Spring is in my heart,' who would believe winter?

  Khalil Gibran

  Spring, Believe, Heart

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

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• God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Doors

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• Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.

  Khalil Gibran

  Suicide, Suicidal, Men

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

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• Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Giving, Stubborn

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

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• Men would bless you or curse you;
  The curse, a protest against failure,
  The blessing, a hymn of the hunter
  Who comes back from the hills
  With provision for his mate.

  Khalil Gibran

  Blessing, Men, Hymns

  "A Man From Lebanon: Nineteen Centuries Afterward". "Jesus, The Son of Man". Book by Khalil Gibran, 1928.

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