Flower Quotes by Khalil Gibran

21 Flower quotes by Khalil Gibran

Gibran treats a bloom as a silent teacher, and his twenty‑one verses whisper that lesson. The collection balances mystic insight with simple wonder, inviting readers to pause and listen.

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

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A root is a flower that disdains fame.

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Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun.

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The snow and the storm destroy the flower; but its seed they cannot kill.

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

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

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Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.

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

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And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.

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Because the soul is like a flower that folds its petals when dark comes, and breathes not its fragrance into the phantoms…

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Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower. Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you…

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“To you the earth yields her fruit, and you shall not want if you but know how to fill your hands.”

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Give and Take... For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life And to the flower a bee is a…

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She danced the dance of flames and fire, and the dance of swords and spears; she danced the dance of stars and…

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Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On greater pirates…

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You are a flower crushed beneath the feet of the animal that is concealed in a human being. Take comfort, in that…

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It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden forever in…

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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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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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Spring is beautiful everywhere, but it is more than beautiful in Lebanon. Spring is the spirit of an unknown God speeding through…

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In the autumn I gathered all my sorrows and buried them in my garden. And when April returned and spring came to…

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

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

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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 to the…

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

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

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“follow the steps trust them and yourself”

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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 a heart…

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

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

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

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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…

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

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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…

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