Khalil Gibran Quotes

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Khalil Gibran

Profession : Poet

Birth : January 6, 1883

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Khalil Gibran

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Khalil Gibran

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Khalil Gibran

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Khalil Gibran

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

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Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Khalil Gibran

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

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If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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Your friend is your needs answered.

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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

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When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

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If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

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The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

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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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