Khalil Gibran Quotes - Page 22

• You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind.

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  Wind, House, Bereavement

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

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• Which of you would be silent - when all else sings together in unison?

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  Silence, Together, Would Be

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

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• Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Blood

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• Let your home be you mast and not your anchor.

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  Home, Anchors, Contemplation

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• These things he said in words. But much in his heart remained unsaid. For he himself could not speak his deeper secret.

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  Heart, Secret, Speak

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

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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.

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  Children, Looks, Riddle

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

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• People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

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  Mirrors, People, Gazing

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

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• Humanity looks upon Jesus the Nazarene as a poor-born Who suffered misery and humiliation with all of the weak. And He is pitied, for Humanity believes He was crucified painfully. . . . And all that Humanity offers to Him is crying and wailing and lamentation. For centuries Humanity has been worshiping weakness in the person of the Savior. The Nazarene was not weak! He was strong and is strong! But the people refuse to heed the true meaning of strength.

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  Jesus, Strong, Believe

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• My Lebanon is a flock of birds fluttering in the early morning as shepherds lead their sheep into the meadow & rising in the evening as farmers return from their fields and vineyards.You have your Lebanon and its people. I have my Lebanon and its people.

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  Morning, Sheep, People

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

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• Philosophy's work is finding the shortest path between two points.

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  Philosophy, Two, Path

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• You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house. And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom.

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  Evil, House, Thieves

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

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• They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.

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  Spiritual, Men, Mankind

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• Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

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  Sowing, Doe, Sowing Seeds

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• Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister, and the woman-friend, I would have been sleeping among those who seek the tranquility of the world with their snoring.

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  Sister, Mother, Sleep

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• Reason is not like the goods sold in the market places--the more plentiful they are, the less they are worth. Reason's worth waxes with her abundance. But were she sold in the market, it is only the wise man who would understand her true value.

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  Wise, Men, Abundance

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• Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.

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  Birthday, Death, Expression

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

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• If we were to all sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality.

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  Circles, Laughing, Relaxation

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• The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness.

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  Love, Cute, Beautiful

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• When God created Man, he gave him Music as a language different from all other languages. And early man sang his glory in the wilderness; and drew the hearts of kings and moved them from their thrones.

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  Music, Kings, Heart

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• Disagreement may be the shortest cut between two minds.

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  Cutting, Two, Mind

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

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• Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem

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  Inspirational, Leadership, Wisdom

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

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• And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.

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  Past, Remembrance, Longing

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.100, Lulu.com

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• And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears listening to the silence and its choirs singing the hymns of time, intoning the praises of the firmament, revealing the secrets of the invisible.

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  Inspiration, Hymns, Addiction

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• Love is quivering happiness.

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  Love, Love Is

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• Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is a basic law, we are all one before it. He who disdains the mean is himself mean. He who vaunts his scorn of the sinful vaunts his disdain of all humanity.

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  Mean, Men, Court Judges

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

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