Kahlil Gibran Quotes

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Kahlil Gibran
An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.
Kahlil Gibran
The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion respect longing patience regret surprise and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.
Kahlil Gibran
The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy.
Kahlil Gibran
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
Kahlil Gibran
In much of your talking thinking is half murdered.
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You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Kahlil Gibran
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
Kahlil Gibran
You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Kahlil Gibran
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Kahlil Gibran
Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today made by past generations was before its appearance a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.
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Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
Kahlil Gibran
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
Kahlil Gibran
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran
You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Kahlil Gibran
You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Kahlil Gibran
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Kahlil Gibran
Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today made by past generations was before its appearance a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.
Kahlil Gibran
Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
Kahlil Gibran
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
Kahlil Gibran
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran
Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
Kahlil Gibran
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
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Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.
Kahlil Gibran
The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
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Reason ruling alone is a force confining and passion unattended is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
Kahlil Gibran
If the other person injures you you may forget the injury but if you injure him you will always remember.
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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran
The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up the paths of mankind. For in one soul are contained the hopes and feelings of all Mankind.
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Yes there is a Nirvanah it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture and in putting your child to sleep and in writing the last line of your poem.
Kahlil Gibran
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain.
Kahlil Gibran
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran
Yes there is a Nirvanah: it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture and in putting your child to sleep and in writing the last line of your poem.
Kahlil Gibran
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
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Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
Kahlil Gibran
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
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Who can separate his faith from his actions or his belief from his occupations?
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A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings.
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A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.
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He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
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Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.These things move within you as lights and shadows in pairs that cling.And when the shadow fades and is no more, the light that lingers becomes a shadow to another light.And thus your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.
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Do not blame a person for drinking lest he is trying to forget something more serious than drinking.
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And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil.And he answered :You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .
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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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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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But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you,So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.
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To be modest in speaking truth is hypocrisy. TM-ST-95
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Fear not the phantom of death, My Countrymen, for his greatnessAnd mercy will refuse to approachYour smallness; and dread not the Dagger, for it will decline to beLodged in your shallow hearts.
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In the summer heat the reapers say, “We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair.
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Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering?And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn?
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There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.
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You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.
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Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.
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You often say, “I would give, but only to the deserving.”The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
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It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; And to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.
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Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed?See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.
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You often say ; I would give , but only to the deserving, The trees in your orchard say not so , nor the flocks in your pasture.Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and nights is worthy of all else from you.And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream. See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver , and an instrument of giving.For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you , who deem yourself a giver , is but a witness.
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Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do.
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Let your home be you mast and not your anchor.
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