Khalil Gibran Quotes - Page 5

• My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.

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  Silence, House, Identity

  Khalil Gibran (1918). “The Madman”, p.3, Library of Alexandria

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• The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

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  Inspirational, Meaningful, Spiritual

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• Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress." And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without." At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty."

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  Beauty, Pain, Oysters

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• No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.

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  Spiritual, Wedding, Hands

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• Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.

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  Valentines Day, Being Alone, Family Love

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

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• The silence of the envious is too noisy.

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  Silence, Envious, Noisy

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

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• Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure. Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful.

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  Spiritual, Pain, Heart

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• Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who say every sort of wicked thing about me because I sacrificed their friendship to gain my own soul. I left the dark paths of their duplicity and turned my eyes toward the light where there is salvation, truth, and justice. They have exiled me now from their society, yet I am content. Mankind only exiles the one whose large spirit rebels against injustice and tyranny. He who does not prefer exile to servility is not free in the true and necessary sense of freedom.

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  Spiritual, Eye, Dark

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• Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

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  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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

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• Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.

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  Spiritual, Moving, Compassion

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• But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips.

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  Running, Spiritual, Song

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

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• love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

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  Marriage, Moving, Sea

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

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• Rest in reason. Move in Passion.

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  Work, Moving, Passion

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• When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

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  Love, Life, Marriage

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

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• Many are the places of worship, but few indeed are those who worship in Spirit and in truth.

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  Truth, Spirit, Worship

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• Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

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  Uplifting, Faith, Philosophical

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

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• Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.

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  Sympathy, Flower, Condolences

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• Darkness is dawn not yet born.

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  Darkness, Dawn, Born

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

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• Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason that are within you. Keep a watchful eye over yourself as if you were your own enemy; for you cannot learn to govern yourself, unless you first learn to govern your own passions and obey the dictates of your conscience.

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  Passion, Eye, Discipline

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• And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children. And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain. You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees.

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  Children, Rain, Flower

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

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• Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.

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  Love, Marriage, Nature

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• Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

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  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  Khalil Gibran “Khalil The Heretic”, Library of Alexandria

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• A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

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  Friendship, Best Friend, Real Friends

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• You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free!

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  Dark, Thinking, Feet

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• Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

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  Life, Spiritual, Wisdom

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

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