Khalil Gibran Quotes - Page 8

• Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.

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  Men, Compassion, Innocent Man

  Khalil Gibran “Khalil The Heretic”, Library of Alexandria

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• If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more,we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song. And if our hands should meet in another dream we shall build another tower in the sky.

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  Dream, Song, Memories

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

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• Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?

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  Life, Spiritual, Men

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• Love is a sacred mystery.
  To those who love, it remains forever wordless;
  But to those who do not love, it may be but a heartless jest.

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  Life, Love Is, Forever

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

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• Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.

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  Struggle, Men, Seeking

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• A truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.

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  Religious, Men, Doe

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• Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.

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  Song, Prayer, Heart

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• Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower. Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved.

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  I Love You, Dream, Sweet

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

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• When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

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  Numbers, Advice, Enemy

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• In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.

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  Ocean, Water, Secret

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• Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
  But your ears thirst for the sound of the heart's knowledge.
  You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.
  You would touch with your fingers the naked body of the dreams.

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  Dream, Heart, Night

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

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• If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

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  Love, Flower, Anger

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

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• Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.

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  Music, Oneness, Soul

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

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• Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

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  Inspirational, Wisdom, Anger

  Sand and Foam (1926) p. 59

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• He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.

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  Brother, Understanding, Kindred

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• When you are born, your work is placed in your heart.

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  Heart, Born

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• My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

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  Spiritual, Loneliness, Men

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

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• I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

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  Dream, Reality, Vision

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• Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.

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  Giving, Soul, Your Soul

  Khalil Gibran (2015). “A Tear And A Smile - Parables, Stories, and Poems of Khalil Gibran”, p.54, Editora Dracaena

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• Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.

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  Pain, Self, Sick

  Khalil Gibran, “On Pain”

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• Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.

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  Self Confidence, People, Doubt

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• The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

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  Love, Inspirational, Dream

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

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• God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born.

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  Doubt, Patient, Be Patient

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• Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

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  Love, Life, Beauty

  "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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