Khalil Gibran Quotes - Page 16

• Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

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  Spiritual, Pain, Philosophy

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

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• Your house is your larger body.

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  House, Body

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

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• To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.

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  Judging, Blame, Weakest Link

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

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• Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

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  Freedom, Liberty, Greater

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

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• God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.

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  Life, Military, War

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• A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free.

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  Freedom, Men, Being Free

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• Say not, I have found the path of the soul Say rather, I have met the soul walking upon my path.

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  Spiritual, Soul, Lotuses

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

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• Love prides itself not only in the one who loves, but also in the beloved.

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  Pride, Beloved

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• The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

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  Inspirational, Men, Desire

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

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• Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?

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  Trust, Thirst, Dread

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

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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.

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  Kindness, Humor, Helping Others

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

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• If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day.

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  Men, Weakness, Fellow Man

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• Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.

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  Wisdom, Kindness, Mirrors

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

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• Tell your secret to the wind, but don't blame it for telling the trees.

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  Spiritual, Wind, Tree

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• It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.

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  Needs, Hunger And Thirst, Next

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• For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose windows are the songs and the silences of night.

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  Song, Morning, Night

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.56, Lulu.com

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• The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Giving

  Khalil Gibran, “Teaching XVIII”

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• life unfolds itself in mysteries ways.

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  Way, Mystery

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• I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.

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  Life, Poet, Prose

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• Now let us play hide and seek. Should you hide in my heart it would not be difficult to find you. But should you hide behind your own shell, then it would be useless for anyone to seek you.

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  Heart, Play, Would Be

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

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• You have your ideology and I have mine.

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  Ideology, Mines

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• Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

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  Pain, Reading Poetry, Joy

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

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• Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means.

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  Mean, Mad, Secret

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• The longing for paradise is paradise itself.

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  Paradise, Longing

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• My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me never to delight in praise or to be distressed by reproach. Before my Soul taught me, I doubted the value of my accomplishments until the passing days sent someone who would extol or disparage them. But now I know that trees blossom in the spring and give their fruits in the summer without any desire for accolades. And they scatter their leaves abroad in the fall and denude themselves in the winter without fear of reproof.

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  Summer, Spring, Fall

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

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