Khalil Gibran Quotes - Page 12

• The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.

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  Foundation, Stones, Structure

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• Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

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  Love, Beauty, Mirrors

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

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• A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

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  Proportion, Humour

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

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• In the autumn I gathered all my sorrows and buried them in my garden. And when April returned and spring came to wed the earth, there grew in my garden beautiful flowers unlike all other flowers. And my neighbors came to behold them, and they all said to me, "When autumn comes again, at seeding time, will you not give us of the seeds of these flowers that we may have them in our gardens?"

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  Beautiful, Forgiveness, Spring

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• You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

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  Children, Parenting, Arrows

  Prophet (1923) "On Children"

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• Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality

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  Laughing, Originality, Sin

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• Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.

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  Jewels, Coal, Definitions

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

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• It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.

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  Giving, Joy, Understanding

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.36, Lulu.com

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• The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remain hovering over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves. I am one of those who remembers those places regardless of distance or time.

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  Beautiful, Children, Distance

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• Trickery succeeds sometimes, but it always commits suicide.

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  Suicide, Wisdom, Fun

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

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• A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.

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  Love, Truth, Secret

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

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• Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

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  Inspirational Love, Laughter, Wine

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

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• God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.

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  Truth, Doors, Hands

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• Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.

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  Life, Butterfly, Dark

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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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• Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse.

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  Relationship, Two, Pillars

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• Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

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  Work, Generosity, Giving

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

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• The highest virtue here may be least in another world.

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  Perspective, World, May

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• I use hate as a weapon to defend myself; had I been strong, I would never have needed that kind of weapon.

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  Strong, Hate, Use

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

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• One may not reach the dawn save by path of night.

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  Night, Darkness, Dawn

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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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• As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.

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  Friends, Increase, Decrease

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• Because the soul is like a flower that folds its petals when dark comes, and breathes not its fragrance into the phantoms of the night.

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  Flower, Dark, Night

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

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• Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?

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  Heart, Heaven, Suffering

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• Learn the words of wisdom uttered by the wise and apply them in your own life. Live them - but do not a make a show of reciting them, for he who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass loaded with books.

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  Wise, Book, Words Of Wisdom

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