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Heart Quotes by Khalil Gibran

66 Heart quotes by Khalil Gibran

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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding, like a stone cracking to let light in. The quotes teach that beauty is an inner ecstasy, a light in the heart, not a surface need. Following your heart is presented as the right guide for every big decision.

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Beauty is not in the face. It is the light in our heart.

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Sorrow is too great to exist in small hearts.

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Then it is also in my heart to be worthy of your hate.

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Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.

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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

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Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart..

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It was in my heart to help a little because I was helped much.

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Tears have cleansed my eyes, and errors have taught me the language of the hearts.

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I have pondered long, and I know now that only the pure of heart forgive the thirst that leads to dead waters.…

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Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened…

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These things he said in words. But much in his heart remained unsaid. For he himself could not speak his deeper secret.

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In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a shining dawn.

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All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become…

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When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.

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Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.

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Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and…

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When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would…

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And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart: Your seeds shall live in my body,…

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Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see…

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When God created Man, he gave him Music as a language different from all other languages. And early man sang his glory…

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The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up…

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Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a…

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Out of my deeper heart a bird rose and flew skywards. Higher and higher did it rise, yet larger and larger did…

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Cover me with soft earth, and let each handful be mixed With seeds ofjasmine, lilies, and myrtle; and when they Grow above…

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Like sheaves of corn it gathers you unto itself. It threshes you to make you naked. It sifts you to free you…

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You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heath of life?…

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God made the world with a heart full of love, Then He looked down from Heaven above, And saw that we all…

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I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes; nor would I be content with converting…

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And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood…

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Miserable is the man who loves a woman and takes her for his wife, pouring at her feet the sweat of his…

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And now you ask in your heart, ‘How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not…

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When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay. And…

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Like the seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.

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If winter should say, 'Spring is in my heart,' who would believe winter?

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When you are born, your work is placed in your heart.

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A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible.

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Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

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The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.

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The best love come from the heart, not from the mouth.

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When a man's hand touches the hand of a woman, they both touch the heart of eternity.

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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart…

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.

Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb?

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the…

Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?'

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

“follow the steps trust them and yourself”

Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart…

I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.

“That which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space”

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your…

“The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it, And the clay that fills your ears shall be…

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your…

joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

Like the ocean is your god-self; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like the sun…