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Soul Quotes by Khalil Gibran

40 Soul quotes by Khalil Gibran

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Khalil Gibran writes that beauty feels like a fire in the heart, not a simple need. He tells us the soul knows deeper truths than the mind and that music is a common language that awakens that inner song. He warns that chasing comfort can kill the soul’s passion.

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“For the soul walks upon all paths.”

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The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul.

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Your body is the harp of the soul.

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In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.

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The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security…

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Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.

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What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

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What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.

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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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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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This for God and this for myself; This for my soul, and this other for my body?

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Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.

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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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Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements…

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I am bored with gabbers and their gab; my soul abhors them. . . . Is there any place where there is…

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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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The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is…

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if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping,…

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Those to whom worshiping is a window, to open but also to shut, have not yet visited the house of their souls…

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God has given you a spirit with wings on which to soar into the spacious firmament of Love and Freedom. Is it…

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My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me never to delight in praise or to be distressed by reproach. Before my Soul…

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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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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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Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth. It is the union of two souls…

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The human heart cries out for help; the human soul implores us for deliverance; but we do not heed their cries, for…

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Love descends upon our souls by the will of God and not by the demand or the plea of the individual.

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I had a second birth when my soul and my body loved one another and were married.

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You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth.

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If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck…

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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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In the depth of my soul there is A wordless song - a song that lives In the seed of my heart.…

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Life without Freedom is like a body without a soul, and Freedom without Thought is like a confused spirit. . . .…

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God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us…

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The soul is an embryo in the body of Man, and the day of death is the Day of awakening, for it…

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Life is but a sleep disturbed by dreaming, prompted by the will; the saddened soul with sadness hides it's secrets, and the…

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God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware…

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And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I…

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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…

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“And if there come the singers and the dancers and the flute players, buy of their gifts also. For they too are…

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I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom; I am in…

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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…