Khalil Gibran Quotes - Page 25

• Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets

  Khalil Gibran

  Regret, Children, Justification

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• God has given you a spirit with wings on which to soar into the spacious firmament of Love and Freedom. Is it not pitiful than that you cut your wings with your own hands and suffer your soul to crawl like an insect upon the earth?

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  Love, Cutting, Hands

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• Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.

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  Life, Moving, Half

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

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• If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

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  Jesus, Fear, Humble

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• Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Clothes, Beautiful Clothes

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.58, Lulu.com

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• But now I have learned to listen to silence. To hear its choirs singing the song of ages, chanting the hymns of space, and disclosing the secrets of eternity.

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  Song, Hymns, Space

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• In the depth of my soul there is
  A wordless song - a song that lives
  In the seed of my heart.
  It refuses to melt with ink on
  Parchment; it engulfs my affection
  In a transparent cloak and flows,
  But not upon my lips.

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  Song, Heart, Soul

  Khalil Gibran (2015). “A Tear And A Smile - Parables, Stories, and Poems of Khalil Gibran”, p.47, Editora Dracaena

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• ...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.

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  Justice, Greed, Hunger

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

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• And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational Love, Thinking, Knives

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

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• Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it. Kahlil Gibran (Visions of the Prophet)

  Khalil Gibran

  Love Is, Vision, Prophet

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• I had a second birth when my soul and my body loved one another and were married.

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  Soul, Body, Married

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• Work is love made visable.

  Khalil Gibran

  Made

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• He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.

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  Mother, Soul, Bless

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• They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

  Khalil Gibran

  Giving, May

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

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• It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body

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  Mind, Body, Slavery

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• Like sheaves of corn it gathers you unto itself. It threshes you to make you naked. It sifts you to free you from your husks. It grinds you to whiteness. It kneads you until you are pliant. And then it assigns you to its sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast. All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's Heart.

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  Heart, Fire, Secret

  Khalil Gibran, “Love”

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• Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.

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  Beauty, Heart, Past

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

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• Should you really open your eyes and see, you would behold your image in all images. And should you open your ears and listen, you would hear your own voice in all voices.

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  Eye, Voice, Ears

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

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• If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.

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  Death, Heart, Sea

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

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• You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Self, Foundation, Giants

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

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• It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden forever in bloom and a flock of angels forever in flight.

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  Angel, Garden, Wings

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

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• Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff; and when they are with you, you can possess no greater treasures.

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  Life, Faith, Knowledge

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• Each thing that exists remains forever, and that very existence of existence is proof of its eternity. But without that realization, which is the knowledge of perfect being, man would never know whether there was existence or non-existence. If eternal existence is altered, then it must become more beautiful; and if it disappears, it must return with more sublime image; and if it sleeps, it must dream of a better awakening, for it is ever greater upon its rebirth.

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  Beautiful, Dream, Sleep

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• For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Evil, Hunger And Thirst

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

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• I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.

  Khalil Gibran

  Lonely, Strong, Brother

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

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