Kahlil Gibran quotes - page 12

I would tell you more of Him, but how shall I? When love becomes vast love becomes wordless. And when memory is overladen it seeks the silent deep. (Kahlil Gibran)
I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward. View quote
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I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us. View quote
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And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. View quote
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Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow. View quote
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Love is the veil between lover and lover. View quote
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Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow. View quote
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Make me, oh God, the prey of the Lion, ere you make the rabbit my prey. View quote
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Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange. View quote
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And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief. View quote
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Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. (Kahlil Gibran)
For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life's procession that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite. View quote
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Tell your secret to the wind, but don't blame it for telling the trees. View quote
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Work is love made visable. View quote
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And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree. View quote
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If it were not for guests all houses would be graves. View quote
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O love, whose lordly hand Has bridled my desires, And raised my hunger and my thirst To dignity and pride, Let not the strong in me and the constant Eat the bread or drink the wine That tempt my weaker self. Let me rather starve, And let my heart parch with thirst, And let me die and perish, Ere I stretch my hand To a cup you did not fill, Or a bowl you did not bless. View quote
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And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night. View quote
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What is fear of need but need itself? View quote
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To belittle, you have to be little. View quote
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For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man. (Kahlil Gibran)
And that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space. View quote
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For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind. View quote
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It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body. View quote
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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. View quote
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