Kahlil Gibran quotes - page 13

Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. (Kahlil Gibran)
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth. View quote
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Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? View quote
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It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands. View quote
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Joy and sorrow are inseparable, together they came and where one sits alone with you at the board remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. View quote
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And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes. View quote
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For love is sufficient unto love. View quote
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For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether? View quote
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And let your best be for your friend. View quote
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A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland. View quote
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Virtue tested Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart. (Kahlil Gibran)
Even while the earth sleeps we travel. View quote
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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. View quote
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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. View quote
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Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse. View quote
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Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. 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 y. View quote
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They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, tr. View quote
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Perhaps Time's Definition of Coal is the Diamond. View quote
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You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth. View quote
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For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory. View quote
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When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty. (Kahlil Gibran)
Often times I have hated in self-defense if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon. View quote
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Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes. View quote
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Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality. View quote
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And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. View quote
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Kahlil Gibran

Occupation: Lebanese-American Writer
Born: January 6, 1883
Died: April 10, 1931
Quotes count: 338
Wikipedia: Kahlil Gibran

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