Kahlil Gibran Quotes

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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
- Kahlil Gibran

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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
- Kahlil Gibran

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
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An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.
- Kahlil Gibran

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Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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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

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The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no man made jewels to heighten her loveliness.
- Kahlil Gibran

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Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
- Kahlil Gibran

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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

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

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The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
- Kahlil Gibran

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And the self same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
- Kahlil Gibran

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The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host, and then a master.
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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
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If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.
- Kahlil Gibran

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Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
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If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
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A root is a flower that disdains fame.
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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.
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And think not you can Direct the course of love, For love, If it finds you worthy, Directs your course.
- Kahlil Gibran

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Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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Yesterday is but today’s memory, tomorrow is today’s dream.
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Love is trembling happiness.
- Kahlil Gibran

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Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
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Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
- Kahlil Gibran

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Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
- Kahlil Gibran

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
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Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
- Kahlil Gibran

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To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
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Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
- Kahlil Gibran

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The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.
- Kahlil Gibran