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Gibran Khalil Gibran Quotes & Sayings

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Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery. — Khalil Gibran

Let ignorance reproduce itself until it is weary of its own offspring. — Khalil Gibran

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

You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind ... — Khalil Gibran

Rob a neighbour with a smile. — Khalil Gibran

We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words. — Khalil Gibran

Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard. — Khalil Gibran

Qualities of Good Citizens ... is to admire what others have created in love and faith — Khalil Gibran

Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born. — Khalil 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

God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith. — Khalil Gibran

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

It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling. — Khalil Gibran

Let your best be for your friend ... — Khalil Gibran

To be closer to god, be closer to people. — Khalil Gibran

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

You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done. — Khalil Gibran

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

Even while the Earth sleeps we travel. — Khalil Gibran

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches. — Khalil Gibran

To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets. — Khalil Gibran

He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books. — Khalil Gibran

A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success. — Khalil Gibran

In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond ... — Khalil Gibran

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully. — Khalil Gibran

The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none. — Khalil Gibran

He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth. — Khalil Gibran

Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery. — Khalil Gibran

Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other. — Khalil Gibran

The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor. — Khalil Gibran

He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life. — Khalil Gibran

I would tell you more of Him, but how shall I? When love becomes vast love becomes wordless. And when memory is overladen it seeks the silent deep. — Khalil Gibran

A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free. — Khalil Gibran

Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower. Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved. — Khalil Gibran

One may not reach the dawn save by path of night. — Khalil Gibran

Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow. — Khalil Gibran

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man. — Khalil Gibran

Inspiration is in seeing a part of the whole with the part of the whole in you. — Khalil Gibran

I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom; I am in comfort, I am in peace. — Khalil Gibran

If winter should say, 'Spring is in my heart,' who would believe winter? — Khalil Gibran

He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth. — Khalil Gibran

Trickery succeeds sometimes, but it always commits suicide. — Khalil Gibran

When you feel Jealousy is a sign that Love should have each other — Khalil Gibran

How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper. — Khalil Gibran

The ageless melody, unheard, heals; the healing vision, unseen, leads; the true leaders, immortal, know ... — Khalil Gibran

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells. — Khalil Gibran

Pity it is we drowse too soon
Pity it is we fall asleep
Ere our song encompass the height
Ere our hand inherit the deep — Khalil Gibran

And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. — Khalil Gibran

He that tries to seize an opportunity after it has passed him by is like one who sees it approach but will not go to meet it. — Khalil Gibran

When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty. — Khalil Gibran

When a man's hand touches the hand of a woman, they both touch the heart of eternity. — Khalil Gibran

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul. — Khalil Gibran

Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end. — Khalil Gibran

The only time a juggler / Appeals to me / Is when I see him / Miss the ball. — Khalil Gibran

Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation. — Khalil 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. — Khalil Gibran

Our pain carves out a larger space for love to fill. — Khalil Gibran

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

If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts. — Khalil Gibran

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

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

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

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

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

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. — Khalil 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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