Khalil Gibran Quotes - Page 9

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

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

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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.

  Khalil Gibran

  Self Confidence, People, Doubt

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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.

  Khalil Gibran

  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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• 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.

  Khalil Gibran

  Doubt, Patient, Be Patient

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• Work is love made visible.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspiring, Work, Inspirational Life

  The Prophet "OnWork" (1923)

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• Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Alterquest: the Alternative Quest for Answers". Book by Karen Fiala, 2006.

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• We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Cells, Deep Thought

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• Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

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  Inspirational, Shells, Strange

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

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• Miserable is the man who loves a woman and takes her for his wife, pouring at her feet the sweat of his skin and the blood of his body and the life of his heart, and placing her in the hands of the fruit of his toil and the revenue of his diligence; for when he slowly wakes up, he finds that the heart that he endeavored to buy is given away freely and in sincerity to another man for the enjoyment of its hidden secrets and deepest love.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Men, Blood

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• We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.

  Khalil Gibran

  Language, Seven

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

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• You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.

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  Shadow, Sun, Turns

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

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• The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

  Khalil Gibran

  Courage, House, Lust

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.54, Lulu.com

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• All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.

  Khalil Gibran

  Kindness, Humor, Helping Others

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

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• If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Motivational, Family

  Prophet (1923) "On Work"

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• Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness

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  Peace, Pain, Islands

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• You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dream, Children, Parenting

  Prophet (1923) "On Children"

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• You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

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  Prayer, Joy, Needs

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

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• There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

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  Happiness, Famous Inspirational, Giving

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.

  Khalil Gibran

  Short Love, Love You, Love Is

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• When a man's hand touches the hand of a woman, they both touch the heart of eternity.

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  Heart, Men, Hands

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

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• Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

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  Life, Desire, Half

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• Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

  Khalil Gibran

  Religion, Temples, Daily Life

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

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• It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life. Now I know that I am the sphere, and all life in rhythmic fragments moves within me.

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  Moving, Yesterday, Spheres

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

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• Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

  Khalil Gibran

  Equality, And Love, Generations

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