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Kahlil Gibran Quotes

Total quotes: 16
“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.”
— Kahlil Gibran, A Tear and a Smile
Tagged: Destiny, Love and Happiness, Let Them Go, Fate
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet (A Borzoi Book)
Tagged: Earth, Bare feet, Wind, Nature
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
— Kahlil Gibran, The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran
Tagged: beauty, Self-Esteem
“Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.”
— Kahlil Gibran, Sand And Foam
Tagged: forgiveness, Faults, Virtues
“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.”
— Kahlil Gibran, Living Up In A Down World
Tagged: Future, Anxiety, Control
“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”
— Kahlil Gibran, The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy”
— Kahlil Gibran, The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran: Author of The Prophet
“Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.”
— Kahlil Gibran, Kahlil Gibran, The Collected Works
“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.”
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet (A Borzoi Book)
“You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care, nor your nights without a want and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.”
— Kahlil Gibran, The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran: Author of The Prophet
“Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.”
— Kahlil Gibran, The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran: Author of The Prophet
“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 be rather a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Tagged: Marriage, Souls, Love, Our Love, Perfect Love, Togetherness
“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”
— Kahlil Gibran, Collected Works of Khalil Gibran
Tagged: Friendship, Responsibility, Opportunity
“You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time.”
— Kahlil Gibran, The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran: Author of The Prophet
“Some of you say, ‘Joy is greater than sorrow,’ and others say, ‘Nay, sorrow is the greater.’
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”
— Kahlil Gibran, Kahlil Gibran, The Collected Works
“Let there be spaces in your togetherness. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Let each one of you be alone, as the strings of a lute are alone, though they quiver with the same music. Stand together, yet not too near together: for the pillars of the temple stand apart, and the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”
— Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Tagged: Philosophy, Psychology, Love
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