Best Quotes by Khalil Gibran (Top 10)
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One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
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If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
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It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
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Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
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More Khalil Gibran Quotes
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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
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How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.
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Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another ruler with trumpetings again. Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strong men are yet in the cradle. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.
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Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
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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.
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The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
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When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
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Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
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Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
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Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
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Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.
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Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
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One may not reach the dawn save by path of night.
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Rest in reason. Move in Passion.
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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
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