Khalil Gibran Quotes - Page 29

• And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone. Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him, who though faster and surer of foot, yet removed not the stumbling stone.

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  Fall, Feet, Judgement

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

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• Let there be spaces in your togetherness...just as strings of a lute dance alone though they quiver with the same music.

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  Space, Togetherness, Quiver

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• For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether?

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  Prayer, Self, Expansion

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

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• Beauty shall rise with the dawn from the east.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dawn, East

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

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• He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.

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  Truth Is, Openness

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

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• Conscience is a just but weak judge. Weakness leaves it powerless to execute its judgment.

  Khalil Gibran

  Judging, Weakness, Execution

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• The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.

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  Democracy, Half, Guilty

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

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• My proof convinces the ignorant, and the wise man's proof convinces me. But he whose reasoning falls between wisdom and ignorance, I neither can convince him, nor can he convince me.

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  Wise, Fall, Ignorance

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• The envier praises me unknowingly.

  Khalil Gibran

  Praise

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• Life is the mistress to be wooed.

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  Life, Mistress, Life Is

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• And that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.

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  Stars, Dwelling, Space

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

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• Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.

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  Heart, Names, Bleeding

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• My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my thirst. But in this burning that is never extinguished is a joy that never wanes.

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  Joy, Solitude, Burning

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

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• Poetry is not the opinion stated. It is a song that appears instead of a bloody wound or a smiling mouth.

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  Song, Inspiring Love, Mouths

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• For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart.

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  Mother, Heart, Sight

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• A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.

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  Inspirational, Failure, Shy

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

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• There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward. And there are those who give with pain, and that pain is their baptism. And there are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space. Through the hands of such as these God speaks, and from behind their eyes he smiles upon the earth.

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  Pain, Eye, Hands

  Khalil Gibran, “Giving Chapter V”

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• A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks; but the face which, in silence, does not announce hidden mysteries is not beautiful, regardless of the symmetry of its features.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Pain

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

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• But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall direct your course? What man's law shall bind you if you break your yoke but upon no man's prison door? What laws shall you fear if you dance but stumble against no man's iron chains? And who is he that shall bring you to judgment if you tear off your garment yet leave it in no man's path? People of Orphalese, you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

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  Men, Doors, Wind

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

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• If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.

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  House, Would Be, Guests

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• Pity it is we drowse too soon
  Pity it is we fall asleep
  Ere our song encompass the height
  Ere our hand inherit the deep

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  Song, Fall, Hands

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• O love, whose lordly hand
  Has bridled my desires,
  And raised my hunger and my thirst
  To dignity and pride,
  Let not the strong in me and the constant
  Eat the bread or drink the wine
  That tempt my weaker self.
  Let me rather starve,
  And let my heart parch with thirst,
  And let me die and perish,
  Ere I stretch my hand
  To a cup you did not fill,
  Or a bowl you did not bless.

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  Strong, Heart, Wine

  "'Love' ('The Forerunner')". Poem by Khalil Gibran, gutenberg.net.au. 1920.

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• Come with us to the field, or go with our brothers to the sea and cast your net. For the land and the sea shall be bountiful to you even as to us.

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  Brother, Sea, Land

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

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• He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.

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  Life, Loses

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

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• You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

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  Children, Parenting, Yesterday

  'The Prophet' (1923) 'On Children'

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