Kahlil Gibran quotes:

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  • Fear not the phantom of death, My Countrymen, for his greatnessAnd mercy will refuse to approachYour smallness; and dread not the Dagger, for it will decline to beLodged in your shallow hearts.

  • I cannot tarry longer.The sea that calls all things unto her calls me

  • Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.

  • Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

  • Kami ini anak Derita, Kalian anak Sukacita,Kami anak Dukacita, Dan Duka itu bayangan TuhanYang tidak menempati wilayah hati dengki

  • Yesterday was a beautiful tune on the lips of life and today is a silent secret.

  • Self is a sea boundless and measureless.

  • Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came to make the human heart a temple, and the soul an altar, and the mind a priest."

  • Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

  • When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

  • Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and nights.

  • What is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?

  • The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

  • Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone.Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

  • The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it , And the clay that fills your ears shall be pierced by those fingers that kneaded it . And you shall see.And you shall hear .

  • When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

  • If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

  • Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

  • Could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;

  • People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face."

  • We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.

  • Yea, I shall return with the tide.

  • Accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.

  • When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

  • Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

  • Shall I come to you, a boundless drop to a boundless ocean.

  • There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.

  • You make such a noise falling! You scatter all my winter dreams

  • Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem

  • Beauty is a thing of might and dread.Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us.

  • Stand together yet not too near together:For the pillars of the temples stand apart,And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each others shadow.

  • In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.

  • Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.

  • When you were a wandering desire in the mist, I too was there, a wandering desire. Then we sought one another, and out of our eagerness dreams were born. And dreams were time limitless, and dreams were space without measure.

  • Smile, my beloved, like the gold smiles from my father's coffers.

  • The breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.

  • Der Lehrer [...] gibt nicht von seiner Weisheit, sondern eher von seinem Glauben und seiner Liebe.

  • Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.

  • Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering?And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn?

  • When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

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

  • They say: 'If a man knew himself,he would know all mankind.'I say: 'If a man loved mankind,he would know something of himself.

  • Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

  • No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

  • He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering.

  • Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

  • Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

  • Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.

  • And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth.

  • Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

  • Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

  • If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

  • 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.

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

  • I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.

  • Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.

  • For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

  • 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 potters oven?And is not the lute that soothes your spirits the very wood that was hollowed with knives~?

  • For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart.

  • We have heard her shouting among the mountains,"And with her cries came the sound of hoofs, and the beating of wings and the roaring of lions.

  • What is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun~?

  • Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

  • As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.

  • In the summer heat the reapers say, We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw a drift of snow in her hair.

  • An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.

  • Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

  • To belittle, you have to be little.

  • The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.

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