Kahlil Gibran Quotes:

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Inspirational Kahlil Gibran quotes from The Prophet and beyond.
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And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

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.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

Kahlil Gibran: The Prophet - On Children

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

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.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Kahlil Gibran: Love

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.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Love is trembling happiness.

Love... It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

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. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Kahlil Gibran: Song of the Rain

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.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.

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