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Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? — Kahlil Gibran

Which of you would be silent - when all else sings together in unison? — Khalil Gibran

But you, children of space, you restless in rest, you shall not be trapped nor tamed. — Kahlil Gibran

Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination. — Kahlil Gibran

Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares. — Khalil Gibran

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment. — Khalil Gibran

Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you. — Kahlil Gibran

I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now. — Kahlil Gibran

Your body is the harp of the soul. — Khalil Gibran

The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe. — Khalil Gibran

For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. — Kahlil Gibran

The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard. — Khalil Gibran

Even while the Earth sleeps we travel. — Khalil Gibran

Life kisses our faces every morning. Yet, between morning and evening, she laughs at our sorrows. — Kahlil Gibran

We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without. — Kahlil Gibran

You talk when you cease
to be at peace with your
thoughts. — Kahlil Gibran

And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. — Kahlil Gibran

The feelings we live through
in love and in loneliness
are simply, for us,
what high tide
and low tide are to the sea. — Kahlil Gibran

Beauty is a thing of might and dread.
Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us. — Kahlil Gibran

The real in us is silent; the acquired is talkative. — Kahlil Gibran

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. — Kahlil Gibran

I cannot tarry longer.
The sea that calls all things unto her calls me — Kahlil Gibran

I have no enemies ... but if I am to have an enemy, Let his strength be equal to mine, That truth alone may be the victor. — Kahlil Gibran

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

Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. — Kahlil Gibran

Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain. — Kahlil Gibran

And there are those who talk, and without knowledge or forethought reveal a truth which they themselves do not understand. — Kahlil Gibran

The sea that calls all things unto her cals me, and I must embark. — Khalil Gibran

God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips. — Kahlil Gibran

Trust in dreams, for in them is the hidden gate to eternity. — Kahlil Gibran

Life is but a sleep disturbed by dreaming, prompted by the will; the saddened soul with sadness hides it's secrets, and the gay, with thrill. — Khalil Gibran

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. — Kahlil Gibran

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. — Kahlil Gibran

The Beauty of Death — Kahlil Gibran

Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality — Khalil Gibran

Why dispute what we shall be, when we know not even what we are. — Khalil Gibran

DEVIL Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers. WM-ST-62 — Kahlil Gibran

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God. — Khalil Gibran

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. — Khalil Gibran

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. — Khalil Gibran

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

How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream. — Kahlil Gibran

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

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

Drink not from this cup unless you forget the past and the future, for happiness is naught but the moment." And — Kahlil Gibran

Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord. — Khalil Gibran

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. — Kahlil Gibran

From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection. — Khalil Gibran

Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond. — Kahlil Gibran

You have walked among us a spirit, and your shadow has been a light upon our faces. — Kahlil Gibran

Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. — Kahlil Gibran

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping,
For only the hand of God can contain your hearts. — Khalil Gibran

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds. — Khalil Gibran

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes. — Kahlil Gibran

He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering. — Kahlil Gibran

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. — Khalil Gibran

Art is one step from the visibly known toward the unknown. MS-71 — Kahlil Gibran

The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it, — Kahlil Gibran

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

Virtue tested: Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart? — Khalil Gibran

My friend, it was but a song of love out of a poet's heart, sung by every man to every woman. — Kahlil Gibran

Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges? — Khalil Gibran

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. — Kahlil Gibran

If we were to all sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality. — Khalil Gibran

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

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear. — Khalil Gibran

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

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

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

Art is a step in the known toward the unknown — Khalil Gibran

Shall I come to you, a boundless drop to a boundless ocean. — Kahlil Gibran

Passionate love is a quenchless thirst ... — Khalil Gibran

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. — Kahlil Gibran

Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men. — Khalil Gibran

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

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

Smile, my beloved, like the gold smiles from my father's coffers. — Kahlil Gibran

And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. — Kahlil Gibran

The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him. — Khalil Gibran

He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage. — Khalil Gibran

Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames. — Khalil Gibran

The true wealth of a nation lies not in it's gold or silver but in it's learning, wisdom and in the uprightness of its sons. — Kahlil Gibran

All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself. — Khalil Gibran

Work is love made visible. — Kahlil Gibran

We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision. — Khalil Gibran

You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing? — Kahlil Gibran

In your winter you deny your spring, — Kahlil Gibran

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

Love is the gentle smile upon the lips of beauty. — Khalil Gibran

The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg. — Khalil Gibran

For this I bless you most. You give much and know not that you give at all. — Khalil Gibran

And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. — Kahlil Gibran

To know the pain of too much tenderness. — Kahlil Gibran

They dip their pens in our hearts and think they are inspired. — Kahlil Gibran

And verily he will find the roots of the good and the bad, the fruitful and the fruitless, all entwined together in the silent heart of the earth. — Kahlil Gibran

A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption. — Khalil Gibran

Behind the veil of each night, there is a smiling dawn. — Kahlil Gibran

Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires. — Khalil Gibran

Not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city. — Kahlil Gibran

Yesterday is ever jealous of ... tomorrow. — Khalil Gibran