Khalil Gibran Quotes

768 quotes · Poet, Writer

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Khalil Gibran Quotes

All Love Philosophical Spiritual Wise Creative 768 quotes · page 25 of 50

Khalil Gibran

Poet, Writer

Courageous

“Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.”

Country Firsts Oasis

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Khalil Gibran

Poet, Writer

Wise

“If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day.”

Men Weakness Fellow Man

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Love

“Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.”

Lovers Embrace

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Philosophical

“Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?'”

Men Made

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Wise

“If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.”

Men Association Yardsticks

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Love

“Your friend is your needs answered.”

Friendship Best Friend

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Wise

“I learnt silence from the talkative”

Silence Talkative

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Philosophical

“Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights. But your ears thirst for the sound of the heart's knowledge. You would know in words that which you have always known in thought. You would touch with your fingers the naked body of the dreams.”

Heart Dream Night

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Sad

“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?”

Laughter Wine Inspirational Love

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Calm

“You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care, nor your nights without a want and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.”

Night Grief Depression

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Philosophical

“I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.”

Life Spiritual Wisdom

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Thoughtful

“If any of you would bring judgment the unfaithful wife, let him also weight the heart of her husband in scales, and measure his soul with measurements.”

Heart Husband Wife

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