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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
— Kahlil Gibran
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
— Kahlil Gibran
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
If I were to choose between the power of writing a poem and the ecstasy of a poem unwritten, I would choose the ecstasy. It is better poetry.
— Kahlil Gibran
And what is fear of need but need itself?
— Kahlil Gibran
Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination.
— Kahlil Gibran
And he to whom worshipping is a window, to open but also to shut, has not yet visited the house of his soul whose windows are from dawn to dawn.
— 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
What is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?
— Kahlil Gibran
And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the cloud, outstretching His arms in the lightning and descending in rain.
— Kahlil Gibran
Yet in truth you spoke not of her but of needs unsatisfied,
— Kahlil Gibran
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
— Kahlil Gibran
Life kisses our faces every morning. Yet, between morning and evening, she laughs at our sorrows.
— Kahlil Gibran
Men, even if they are born free, will remain slaves of strict laws enacted by their forefathers ...
— Kahlil Gibran
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.
— 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 use hate as a weapon to defend myself; had I been strong, I would never have needed that kind of a weapon.
— 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
Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.
— Kahlil Gibran
Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.
— Kahlil Gibran
We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting
— Kahlil Gibran
And there are those who talk, and without knowledge or forethought reveal a truth which they themselves do not understand.
— Kahlil Gibran
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music.
— Kahlil Gibran
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
— Kahlil Gibran
Dig anywhere in the earth and you will find a treasure, only you must dig with the faith of a peasant.
— Kahlil Gibran
Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
— Kahlil Gibran
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
— Kahlil Gibran
Drink not from this cup unless you forget the past and the future, for happiness is naught but the moment." And
— Kahlil Gibran
What is fear of need but need itself?
— Kahlil Gibran
Self is a sea boundless and measureless.
— Kahlil Gibran
You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons.
— Kahlil Gibran
There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
— Kahlil Gibran
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
— Kahlil Gibran
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom
— Kahlil Gibran
God has created several doors which open onto truth. He opens them to all those who knock on them with the hand of faith.
— Kahlil Gibran
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
— Kahlil Gibran
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
— Kahlil Gibran
And When he speaks to you believe in him,
— Kahlil Gibran
Surely there is no greater gift to a man than that which turns all his aims into parching lips and all life into a fountain.
— Kahlil Gibran
We are richer in material wealth than those villagers; but their spirit is a nobler spirit than ours. We
— Kahlil Gibran
It is in exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied.
— Kahlil Gibran
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
— Kahlil Gibran
When you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very hour, and whom save in prayer you may not meet.
— Kahlil Gibran
Trust in dreams, for in them is the hidden gate to eternity.
— Kahlil Gibran
The Beauty of Death
— Kahlil 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
Art is one step from the visibly known toward the unknown. MS-71
— Kahlil 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
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
Behind the veil of each night, there is a smiling dawn.
— Kahlil Gibran
Not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city.
— Kahlil Gibran
Shall I come to you, a boundless drop to a boundless ocean.
— 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
My friend, it was but a song of love out of a poet's heart, sung by every man to every woman.
— Kahlil Gibran
I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.
— Kahlil Gibran
And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.
— Kahlil Gibran
Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond.
— Kahlil Gibran
Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.
— Kahlil Gibran
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
— Kahlil Gibran
A Great Man Has Two Hearts.One Bleeds And The Other Forbears. — Kahlil Gibran
How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.
— Kahlil Gibran
Work is love made visible.
— Kahlil Gibran
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
— Kahlil Gibran
When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, "I am in the heart of God.
— Kahlil 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
DEVIL Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers. WM-ST-62
— Kahlil Gibran
