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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
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
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
You talk when you ceaseto be at peace with your
thoughts. — Kahlil Gibran
And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.
— Kahlil Gibran
The feelings we live throughin 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 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
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
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
How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.
— 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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