Kahlil Gibran Quotes

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Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night; and it is not dreamless. Does not your house dream, and dreaming, leave the city for grove or hilltop?

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And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone. Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him, who though faster and surer of foot, yet removed not the stumbling stone.

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Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff; and when they are with you, you possess no greater treasures.

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Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.

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

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You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

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Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.

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Cover me with soft earth, and let each handful be mixed With seeds ofjasmine, lilies, and myrtle; and when they Grow above me and thrive on my body's element they will Breathe the fragrance of my heart into space.

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

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No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

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Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf. For in that day you shall know the hidden purposes in all things. And you shall bless darkness as you would bless light.

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The astronomer may speak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding.

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Perhaps the sea's definition of a shell is the pearl.

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Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond.

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Unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.

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I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

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He alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.

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A pearl is a temple built by pain around a grain of sand.

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A scientist without imagination is a butcher with dull knives and out-worn scales.

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You, the strong, have I loved, though the marks of your iron hoofs are yet upon my flesh.

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Tears have cleansed my eyes, and errors have taught me the language of the hearts.

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If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more,we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song. And if our hands should meet in another dream we shall build another tower in the sky.

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It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear, but rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears.

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Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.

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You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.

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What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless?

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The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

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This for God and this for myself;
This for my soul, and this other for my body?

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Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.

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Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?

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