73 quotes by Khalil Gibran

“Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.” — Khalil Gibran

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

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“Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'” — Khalil Gibran

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“Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.” — Khalil Gibran

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“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.” — Khalil Gibran

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“No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.” — Khalil Gibran

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“To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.” — Khalil Gibran

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“But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?” — Khalil Gibran

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“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.” — Khalil Gibran

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

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“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.” — Khalil Gibran

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“I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.” — Khalil Gibran

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“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Love is trembling happiness.” — Khalil Gibran

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

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“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Do not love half lovers. Do not entertain half friends. Do not indulge in works of the half talented. Do not live half a life and do not die half a death. If you choose silence, then be silent. When you speak, do so until you are finished. Do not silence yourself to say something. And do not speak to be silent. If you accept, then express it bluntly. Do not mask it. If you refuse then be clear about it for an ambiguous refusal is but a weak acceptance. Do not accept a half solution. Do not believe half truths. Do not dream half a dream. Do not fantasise about half hopes. Half a drink will not quench your thirst. Half a meal will not satisfy your hunger. Half the way will get you no where. Half an idea will bear you no results. Your other half is not the one you love. It is you in another time yet in the same space. It is you when you are not. Half a life is a life you didn't live. A word you have not said. A smile you postponed. A love you have not had. A friendship you did not know. To reach and not arrive. Work and not work. Attend only to be absent. What makes you a stranger to them closest to you and they strangers to you. The half is a mere moment of inability but you are able for you are not half a being. You are a whole that exists to live a life not half a life.” — Khalil Gibran

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