Khalil Gibran Quotes - Page 28

• You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth.

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  Work, Soul, Earth

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• Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing. Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that 'yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

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  Dream, Time, Memories

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

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• They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see a slave sleeping, wake him and explain to him freedom.

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  Dream, Freedom, Sleep

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

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• If any of you would bring judgment the unfaithful wife, let him also weight the heart of her husband in scales, and measure his soul with measurements.

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  Husband, Heart, Wife

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

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• You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth./The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.

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  Children, Archer, Arrows

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

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• Give me an ear and I will give you a Voice.

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  Voice, Giving, Ears

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

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• Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.

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  Heart, Pride, Self

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• He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

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  Truth, Doe, Slavery

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• And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

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  Song, Prayer, Heart

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.26, Lulu.com

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• Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

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  Faith, Powerful, Forever

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• He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.

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  Wind, Tears, Skins

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

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• My God, my aim and my fulfillment; I am thy yesterday and thou are my tomorrow. I am they root in the earth and thou art my flower in the sky, and together we grow before the face of the sun.

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  Religious, Art, Flower

  Khalil Gibran, “God”

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• Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight more in breaking them.

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  Law, Delight, Laying Down

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

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• Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?

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  Occupation, Belief, Action

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

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• I am bored with gabbers and their gab; my soul abhors them. . . . Is there any place where there is no traffic in empty talk? Is there on this earth one who does not worship himself talking?

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  Talking, Boredom, Soul

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• Take then this Book, look into it, and show me when Jesus was not forgiving. Read this diving tragedy and tell me where He speaks without mercy and compassion. You visit not the sick and the imprisoned; nor do you feed the hungry or give refuge to the stranger or comfort to the mourner.

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  Jesus, Book, Compassion

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• The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among us. He laughed and said, "This is too hard a thing to do, and it will take too long. Were it not better to count only the wise?"

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  Wise, Laughter, Men

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• Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be happy on this earth and lead the way to felicity and preach its gospel wherever he goes. He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life. We came not into this life by exile, but we came as innocent creatures of God, to learn how to worship the holy and eternal spirit and seek the hidden secrets within ourselves from the beauty of life.

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  Life, Teaching, Men

  "Spirits Rebellious". Book by Kahlil Gibran. Chapter "Khalil The Heretic", part 3, 1908.

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• When you are sorrowful, look again.

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  Sympathy, Condolences, Death Of A Loved One

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

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• Let us disperse from our aloofness and serve the weak who made us strong, and cleanse the country in which we live. Let us teach this miserable nation to smile and rejoice with heaven's bounty and glory of life and freedom.

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  Country, Strong, Heaven

  Khalil Gibran “Khalil The Heretic”, Library of Alexandria

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• Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination.

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  Determination, Desire, Life Is

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• That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined. Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones?

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  Determined, Bones, Structure

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.144, Lulu.com

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• Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born.

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  Dream, Earth, Aging

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

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• Youth is a beautiful dream, on whose brightness books shed a blinding dust. Will ever the day come when the wise link the joy of knowledge to youth's dream? Will ever the day come when Nature becomes the teacher of man, humanity his book and life his school? Youth's joyous purpose cannot be fulfilled until that day comes. Too slow is our march toward spiritual elevation, because we make so little use of youth's ardor.

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  Beautiful, Wise, Dream

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• In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe to all men.

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  Men

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

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