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title: "34 Ifs Quotes By Khalil Gibran"
description: "34 Ifs quotes by Khalil Gibran. Plus more from Khalil Gibran and more Ifs sayings from other authors."
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> [If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/if-i-accept-the-sunshine-and-warmth-then-i-must-also-accept-the/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/love-if-it-finds-you-worthy-directs-your-course/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/if-you-are-poor-shun-association-with-him-who-measures-men-with-the/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/wit-is-often-a-mask-if-you-tear-it-you-will-find-either-genius/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [If winter should say, 'Spring is in my heart,' who would believe winter?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/if-winter-should-say-spring-is-in-my-heart-who-would-believe-winter/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/if-indeed-you-must-be-candid-be-candid-beautifully/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/if-it-s-a-despot-you-would-dethrone-see-first-that-his-throne-erected/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/if-it-were-not-for-guests-all-houses-would-be-graves/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/they-tell-me-if-you-see-a-slave-sleeping-do-not-wake-him-lest-he-be/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [If any of you would bring judgment the unfaithful wife, let him also weight the heart of her husband in scales, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/if-any-of-you-would-bring-judgment-the-unfaithful-wife-let-him-also/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/if-aught-i-have-said-is-truth-that-truth-shall-reveal-itself-in-a/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [If we were to all sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/if-we-were-to-all-sit-in-a-circle-and-confess-our-sins-we-would-laugh/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/if-your-knowledge-teaches-you-not-to-rise-above-human-weakness-and/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/love-has-no-other-desire-but-to-fulfill-itself-but-if-you-love-and/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/if-your-knowledge-teaches-you-not-the-value-of-things-and-frees-you/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/give-and-take-for-to-the-bee-a-flower-is-a-fountain-if-life-and-to/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/your-thought-describes-laws-courts-judges-punishments-mine-explains/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch; it will suffer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/the-heart-s-affections-are-divided-like-the-branches-of-the-cedar/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless? But if in you thought you must measure time into seasons,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/and-is-not-time-even-as-love-is-undivided-and-paceless-but-if-in-you/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/i-am-one-of-those-who-believe-that-spiritual-progress-is-a-rule-of/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [Happiness is a myth we seek, If manifested surely irks; Like river speeding to the plain, On its arrival slows and murks.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/happiness-is-a-myth-we-seek-if-manifested-surely-irks-like-river/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [My house says to me, "do not leave me, for here dwells your past." And the road says to me, "Come and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/my-house-says-to-me-do-not-leave-me-for-here-dwells-your-past-and-the/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/each-day-look-into-your-conscience-and-amend-your-faults-if-you-fail/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/each-thing-that-exists-remains-forever-and-that-very-existence-of/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/work-is-love-made-visible-and-if-you-cannot-work-with-love-but-only/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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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?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/you-would-know-the-secret-of-death-but-how-shall-you-find-it-unless-2/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/and-if-you-sing-though-as-angels-and-love-not-the-singing-you-muffle/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/if-you-would-behold-the-spirit-of-death-open-your-heart-wide-unto-the/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [Man is like the foam of the sea, that floats upon the surface of the water. When the wind blows, it vanishes,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/man-is-like-the-foam-of-the-sea-that-floats-upon-the-surface-of-the/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/the-poet-is-a-bird-of-strange-moods-he-descends-from-his-lofty-domain/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/and-if-you-would-know-god-be-not-therefore-a-solver-of-riddles-rather-2/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/marriage-is-like-a-temple-resting-on-two-pillars-if-they-come-too/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/prayer-is-the-song-of-the-heart-it-reaches-the-ear-of-god-even-if-it/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/seek-ye-counsel-of-the-aged-for-their-eyes-have-looked-on-the-faces/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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## Other authors on Ifs

## More by Khalil Gibran

> [Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/your-pain-is-the-breaking-of-the-shell-that-encloses-your/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

> [If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/if-you-are-poor-shun-association-with-him-who-measures-men-with-the/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

> [Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/hate-is-a-dead-thing-who-of-you-would-be-a-tomb/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

> [Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/seek-ye-counsel-of-the-aged-for-their-eyes-have-looked-on-the-faces/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

> [Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/only-once-have-i-been-made-mute-it-was-when-a-man-asked-me-who-are-you/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

> [The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/the-truly-just-is-he-who-feels-half-guilty-of-your-misdeeds/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

> [“follow the steps trust them and yourself”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/follow-the-steps-trust-them-and-yourself/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

> [Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/beauty-is-not-a-need-but-an-ecstasy-it-is-not-a-mouth-thirsting-nor/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

> [I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/i-have-never-agreed-with-my-other-self-wholly-the-truth-of-the-matter/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

> [“That which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/that-which-sings-and-contemplates-in-you-is-still-dwelling-within-the/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/you-pray-in-your-distress-and-in-your-need-would-that-you-might-also/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

> [“The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it, And the clay that fills your ears shall be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/the-veil-that-clouds-your-eyes-shall-be-lifted-by-the-hands-that-wove/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

> [Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/work-is-love-made-visible-and-if-you-cannot-work-with-love-but-only/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

> [joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/joy-and-sorrow-are-inseparable-together-they-come-and-when-one-sits/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/like-the-ocean-is-your-god-self-it-remains-for-ever-undefiled-and/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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                        "text": "My house says to me, \"do not leave me, for here dwells your past.\" And the road says to me, \"Come and follow me, for I am your future.\" And I say to both my house and the road, \"I have no past, nor have I a future. If I stay here, there is a going in my staying; and if I go there is a staying in my going. Only love and death change all things.\"",
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                        "text": "Each thing that exists remains forever, and that very existence of existence is proof of its eternity. But without that realization, which is the knowledge of perfect being, man would never know whether there was existence or non-existence. If eternal existence is altered, then it must become more beautiful; and if it disappears, it must return with more sublime image; and if it sleeps, it must dream of a better awakening, for it is ever greater upon its rebirth.",
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