Khalil Gibran Quotes - Page 27

• Qualities of Good Citizens... is to admire what others have created in love and faith

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  Quality, Citizens, Faith And Love

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• You who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.

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  Strong, Kindness, Lame

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

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• Where are you now, my beloved? Do you hear my weeping From beyond the ocean? Do you understand my need? Do you know the greatness of my patience?

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  Ocean, Greatness, Needs

  Khalil Gibran (2015). “A Tear And A Smile - Parables, Stories, and Poems of Khalil Gibran”, p.56, Editora Dracaena

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• If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts.

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  Wisdom, Truth, Voice

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

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• For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.

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  Men, Wings, Vision

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.90, Lulu.com

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• There is within me a friend who consoles me every time that troubles overwhelm me and misfortunes afflict me. The man who does not feel friendship towards himself is a public enemy, and he who finds no confidant within himself will die of despair. For life streams out of man's inner self and in no way from what surrounds him.

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  Men, Self, Enemy

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• Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

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  Death, Land, People

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• In truth we gaze but do not see, and hearken but do not hear; we eat and drink but do not taste. And there lies the difference between Jesus of Nazareth and ourselves. His senses were all continually made new, and the world to Him was always a new world.

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  Jesus, Lying, Differences

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

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• When you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth. It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house. It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit. It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit. Work is love made visible

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  Dream, Fashion, Heart

  Khalil Gibran, “Work Chapter VII”

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• You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps. Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping. For those who limp go not backwards. But you who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.

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  Strong, Kindness, Evil

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.104, Lulu.com

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• A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, “I will have a camel for lunch today.” And all morning he went about looking for camels. But at noon he saw his shadow again-and he said, “A mouse will do.

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  Morning, Lunch, Sunrise

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

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• In a dream I saw Jesus and My God Pan sitting together in the heart of the forest. They laughed at each other's speech, with the brook that ran near them, and the laughter of Jesus was the merrier. And they conversed long.

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  Dream, Jesus, Laughter

  "Sarkis, An Old Greek Shepherd Called the Madman". "Jesus, The Son of Man". Book by Kahlil Gibran, gutenberg.net.au. 1928.

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• Man is like the foam of the sea, that floats upon the surface of the water. When the wind blows, it vanishes, as if it had never been. Thus are our lives blown away by Death.

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  Life, Blow, Men

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• For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life’s procession that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite.

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  Spiritual, Proud, Majesty

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.42, Lulu.com

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• How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.

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  Singing, Vision, Ants

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

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• Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret?

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  Wall, Pain, Regret

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

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• I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom; I am in comfort, I am in peace.

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  Mountain Peaks, Remembrance, Funeral

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

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• My brothers, seek counsel of one another, for therein lies the way out of error and futile repentance. The wisdom of the many is your shield against tyranny. For when we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

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  Wisdom, Brother, Lying

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• To barter and lose is better than not to go forth.

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  Loses

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

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• Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

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  Attitude, Volcanoes, Doe

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• Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.

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  Friendship, Real Friends, Boards

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.92, Lulu.com

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• When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

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  Death, Grieving, Bereavement

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

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• The mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale.

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  Song, Mute, Grain

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• He was gentle, like a man mindful of his own strength. In my dreams I beheld the kings of the earth standing in awe in His presence.

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  Dream, Kings, Men

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

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• Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames.

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  Love Is, Flames, Two

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