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Khalil Gibran Quotes - Page 12

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Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.

Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.

Life, Butterfly, Dark

He that tries to seize an opportunity after it has passed him by is like one who sees it approach but will not go to meet it.

Opportunity, Trying, Approach

The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch; it will suffer but it does not die; it will pour all its vitality into the next branch so that it will grow and fill the empty place.

Strong, Heart, Tree

Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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

Heart, Night, Silence

Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.86, Lulu.com

When you have grasped a problem clearly, face it with resolution, for that is the way of the strong.

Strong, Determination, Way

The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.

Giving, Receiving, Needs

Khalil Gibran, “Pleasure XXIV”

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

Night, Darkness, Dawn

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.

Work, Generosity, Giving

Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.

Love, Truth, Secret

Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.

Jewels, Coal, Definitions

Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me can praise or belittle me. I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one.

Hate, Envy, Praise

Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

I learnt silence from the talkative

Silence, Talkative

Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.

Volcanoes, Enthusiasm, Grass

I use hate as a weapon to defend myself; had I been strong, I would never have needed that kind of weapon.

Strong, Hate, Use

Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility: For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen, And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.

Pain, Grief, Healing

Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.84, Lulu.com

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

Spiritual, Loneliness, Men

Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Wings, Yield, May

Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.22, Lulu.com

He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.

Dream, Fantasy, Slave

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.

War, Passion, Soul

Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind.

Wise, Wisdom, Men

Death changes nothing but the mask that covers our faces.

Faces, Mask

Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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.

Depression, Grief, Night

Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

Spiritual, Believe, Mountain Peaks

Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end.

Learning, Ends, Programming

Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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