Kahlil Gibran quotes - page 10

When love becomes vast love becomes wordless. And when memory is overladen it seeks the silent deep. (Kahlil Gibran)
No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end. Your thought differentiates between pragmatist and idealist, between the part and the whole, between the mystic and materialist. Mine realizes that life is one and its weights, measures and tables do not coincide with your weights, measures and tables. He whom you suppose an idealist may be a practical man. View quote
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I was dead. I was a woman who had divorced her soul. View quote
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Many indeed are the owls who know no song unlike their own hooting. View quote
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They honour not the man, the living man, The first man who opened His eyes and gazed at the sun With eyelids unquivering. Nay, they do not know Him, and they would not be like Him. View quote
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My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me and demonstrating to me that I am not exalted over the panhandler nor less than the mighty. View quote
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My face and your faces shall not be masked; our hand shall hold neither sword nor sceptre, and our subjects shall love us in peace and shall not be in fear of us. View quote
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My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me not to measure time by saying, "It was yesterday, and will be tomorrow." View quote
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I too died. But in the depth of my oblivion I heard Him speak and say, "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do." View quote
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Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert. View quote
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Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. (Kahlil Gibran)
If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience. View quote
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Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; Yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth. View quote
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In truth we gaze but do not see, and hearken but do not hear; we eat and drink but do not taste. And there lies the difference between Jesus of Nazareth and ourselves. His senses were all continually made new, and the world to Him was always a new world. View quote
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Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky. View quote
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We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side. View quote
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Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain. View quote
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Oh, heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains. View quote
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They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price. View quote
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When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. View quote
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Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born. (Kahlil Gibran)
When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart,” but rather, "I am in the heart of God. View quote
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Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other. View quote
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In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence. View quote
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Do not express bewilderment, for Love has power that dispels Death; charm that conquers the enemy. View quote
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