Kahlil Gibran quotes - page 11

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. (Kahlil Gibran)
The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy. View quote
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Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain. View quote
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We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting. View quote
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Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness. View quote
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Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable? View quote
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For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly. View quote
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For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose windows are the songs and the silences of night. View quote
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Your house is your larger body. View quote
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The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun. View quote
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The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness. (Kahlil Gibran)
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. View quote
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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love. View quote
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People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. View quote
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Your saying 'I do not understand you' is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve. View quote
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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. View quote
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You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts. View quote
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You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time. View quote
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I am forever walking upon these shores, Betwixt the sand and the foam, The high tide will erase my food prnts, And the wind will blow away the foam, But the sea and the shore will remain forver. View quote
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That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man. View quote
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Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar? (Kahlil Gibran)
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem. View quote
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Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. View quote
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We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another, and no sunrise finds us where left by sunset. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of that tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind to be scattered. View quote
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For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. View quote
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