Quotes by Gibran, Kahlil

"One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night."

Gibran, Kahlil on adversity
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"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."

Gibran, Kahlil on adversity
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"When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies."

Gibran, Kahlil on advice
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"Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them."

Gibran, Kahlil on age and aging   

"Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse."

Gibran, Kahlil on deeds and good deeds   

"The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain."

Gibran, Kahlil on desire
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"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."

Gibran, Kahlil on doubt
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"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do."

Gibran, Kahlil on dream
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"An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper."

Gibran, Kahlil on exaggeration   

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

Gibran, Kahlil on faith
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"If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember."

Gibran, Kahlil on forgiveness
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"You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?"

Gibran, Kahlil on freedom
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"Your friend is your needs answered."

Gibran, Kahlil on friends and friendship
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"Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving."

Gibran, Kahlil on friends and friendship
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"Let your best be for your friend..."

Gibran, Kahlil on friends and friendship   

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

Gibran, Kahlil on friends and friendship
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"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures."

Gibran, Kahlil on friends and friendship
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"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."

Gibran, Kahlil on friends and friendship
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"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work."

Gibran, Kahlil on fun
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"Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love."

Gibran, Kahlil on futility
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"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."

Gibran, Kahlil on the future
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"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."

Gibran, Kahlil on generosity
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"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."

Gibran, Kahlil on giving
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"The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities."

Gibran, Kahlil on greatness
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"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions."

Gibran, Kahlil on kindness
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"Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge."

Gibran, Kahlil on knowledge   

"No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge."

Gibran, Kahlil on knowledge   

"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."

Gibran, Kahlil on knowledge
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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."

Gibran, Kahlil on love
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"Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love."

Gibran, Kahlil on love
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"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations."

Gibran, Kahlil on love
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"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

Gibran, Kahlil on love
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"Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love."

Gibran, Kahlil on love
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"Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self."

Gibran, Kahlil on mind
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"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires."

Gibran, Kahlil on modesty
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"Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man."

Gibran, Kahlil on money
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"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

Gibran, Kahlil on nature
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"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."

Gibran, Kahlil on pain
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"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?"

Gibran, Kahlil on potential
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"Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights."

Gibran, Kahlil on silence
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