Kahlil Gibran quotes - page 2

Desire is half of life indifference is half of death. (Kahlil Gibran)
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
Kahlil Gibran
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Kahlil Gibran
But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. 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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And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
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The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
Kahlil Gibran
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
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The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.
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Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you.
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Much of your pain is self-chosen.
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A sense of humour is a sense of proportion. (Kahlil Gibran)
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
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For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.
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The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.
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Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Kahlil Gibran
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
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There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
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The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.
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Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.
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When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. (Kahlil Gibran)
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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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
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I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
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Your friend is your needs answered.
Kahlil Gibran