Khalil Gibran Quotes - Page 15

• Now I realize that the trees blossom in Spring and bear fruit in Summer without seeking praise; and they drop their leaves in Autumn and become naked in Winter without fearing blame.

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  Summer, Fear, Spring

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• The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is healed or dead.

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  People, Solitude, Relaxation

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

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• Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

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  Daughter, Mother, Children

  The Prophet "On Children" (1923)

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• At ebb tide I wrote a line upon the sand, and gave it all my heart and all my soul. At flood tide I returned to read what I had inscribed and found my ignorance upon the shore.

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  Heart, Ignorance, Soul

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• And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.

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  Life, Work, Love You

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

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• For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.

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  Food, Humor, Men

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.46, Lulu.com

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• I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.

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  Fire, Mouths, Might

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• The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

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  Appreciation, Heart, People

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• When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay. And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart; For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed. When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

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  Friendship, Heart, Grieving

  Khalil Gibran, “Friendship IXX”

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• Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping,
  For only the hand of God can contain your hearts.

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  Heart, Hands, Giving

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.28, Lulu.com

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• My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love what the people abhor and to show good will toward the one they hate. It showed me that Love is a property not of the lover but of the beloved. Before my Soul taught me, Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs, but now it has been transformed into a halo; its first is its last, and its last is its first. It encompasses every being, slowly expanding to embrace all that ever will be.

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  Life, Hate, Teaching

  "The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul". Book by Kahlil Gibran, translated by Juan R. I. Cole, 1994.

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• Life is weaker than Death and Death is weaker than Truth.

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  Creative, Life Is

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• Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

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  People, Advice, Please

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• Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows - then let your heart say in silence, "God rests in reason." And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky, - then let your heart say in awe, "God moves in passion.

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  Moving, Passion, Heart

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.82, Lulu.com

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• The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard.

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  Life, Unseen, Our Lives

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• Follow your heart. Your heart is the right guide in everything big. Mine is so limited. What you want to do is determined by that divine element that is in each of us.

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  Heart, Elements, Want

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• For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

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  Communication, Wings, Space

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

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• Happiness is a myth we seek,
  If manifested surely irks;
  Like river speeding to the plain,
  On its arrival slows and murks.
  For man is happy only in
  His aspiration to the heights;
  When he attains his goal, he cools
  And longs for other distant flights.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Believing is a fine thing, but placing those beliefs into execution is a test of strength. Many are those who talk like the roar of the sea, gut their lives are shallow and stagnant, like the rotting marshes. Many are those who lift their heads above the mountain tops, but their spirits remain dormant in the obscurity of the caverns.

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  Life, Believe, Sea

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• Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a spirit who dwells in the soul, whose nourishment is the heart, whose wine is affection. Poetry that comes not in this form is a false messiah.

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  Heart, Wine, Soul

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• Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings.

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  Wings, Broken, Mercy

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

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• The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love

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  Love, Inspirational, Regret

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• And now you ask in your heart, ‘How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good?’ Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower, But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee. For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life, And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love, And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy. * People of Orphalese, be in your pleasures like the flowers and the bees.

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  Flower, Heart, Garden

  Khalil Gibran, “Pleasure XXIV”

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• In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings.

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  Effort, Society, Gold

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• And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also. For what is your friend that your should seek with him hours to kill? Seek with him always hours to live. For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness. And in the sweetness of friendship, let there be laughter, and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

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  Morning, Laughter, Fun

  Khalil Gibran, “Friendship IXX”

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