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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

You are blind and I am deaf and dumb, so let us touch hands and understand. — Kahlil Gibran

Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons — 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

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

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

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 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 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

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. — Kahlil Gibran

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. — Kahlil Gibran

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

A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it.". — 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

For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen, — 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

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. — 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

People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. — Kahlil Gibran

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is but today's dream. — Kahlil 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

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

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

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

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

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