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Life Quotes by Khalil Gibran

76 Life quotes by Khalil Gibran

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A bee and a flower show how giving and taking can be a simple act of love. Gibran’s quotes remind us that older people have seen many years, so their advice can guide us. He also says joy and sorrow travel together, and the real life we seek lives inside us.

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And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless?

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

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Life is the mistress to be wooed.

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life unfolds itself in mysteries ways.

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Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.

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All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.

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Life is weaker than Death and Death is weaker than Truth.

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Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.

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When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

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“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself”

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To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets.

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When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs…

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I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

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Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.

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Love is life sharing, not for hurt, Love is alive both not ambiguous. Love is whole life, not an affair.

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For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.

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

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Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in…

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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.…

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Love is a sacred mystery. To those who love, it remains forever wordless; But to those who do not love, it may…

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For a love to grow through the test of everyday living, one must respect that zone of privacy where one retires to…

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Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your…

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“Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge…

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Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more…

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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…

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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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You often say ; I would give , but only to the deserving, The trees in your orchard say not so ,…

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My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love what the people abhor and to show good will toward the one…

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You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor;…

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Each thing that exists remains forever, and that very existence of existence is proof of its eternity. But without that realization, which…

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I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is…

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Believing is a fine thing, but placing those beliefs into execution is a test of strength. Many are those who talk like…

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“Then a ploughman said, speak to us of work: in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to…

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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,…

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

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“Life is deep and high and distant; and though only your vast vision can reach even her feet, yet she is near;…

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The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard.

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You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.

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“But you are life and you are the veil.”

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For life goes, not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

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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?

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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…