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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 cease
to be at peace with your
thoughts. — Kahlil Gibran
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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