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Khalil Gibran Quotes - Page 15

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Now I realize that the trees blossom in Spring and bear fruit in Summer without seeking praise; and they drop their leaves in Autumn and become naked in Winter without fearing blame.

Now I realize that the trees blossom in Spring and bear fruit in Summer without seeking praise; and they drop their leaves in Autumn and become naked in Winter without fearing blame.

Summer, Fear, Spring

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping, For only the hand of God can contain your hearts.

Heart, Hands, Giving

Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.28, Lulu.com

Believing is a fine thing, but placing those beliefs into execution is a test of strength. Many are those who talk like the roar of the sea, gut their lives are shallow and stagnant, like the rotting marshes. Many are those who lift their heads above the mountain tops, but their spirits remain dormant in the obscurity of the caverns.

Life, Believe, Sea

My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love what the people abhor and to show good will toward the one they hate. It showed me that Love is a property not of the lover but of the beloved. Before my Soul taught me, Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs, but now it has been transformed into a halo; its first is its last, and its last is its first. It encompasses every being, slowly expanding to embrace all that ever will be.

Life, Hate, Teaching

"The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul". Book by Kahlil Gibran, translated by Juan R. I. Cole, 1994.

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.

Daughter, Mother, Children

The Prophet "On Children" (1923)

I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.

Fire, Mouths, Might

When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay. And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart; For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed. 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.

Friendship, Heart, Grieving

Khalil Gibran, “Friendship IXX”

The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard.

Life, Unseen, Our Lives

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

Appreciation, Heart, People

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

Love, Inspirational, Regret

Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings.

Wings, Broken, Mercy

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

In the autumn I gathered all my sorrows and buried them in my garden. And when April returned and spring came to wed the earth, there grew in my garden beautiful flowers unlike all other flowers. And my neighbors came to behold them, and they all said to me, "When autumn comes again, at seeding time, will you not give us of the seeds of these flowers that we may have them in our gardens?"

Beautiful, Forgiveness, Spring

For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

Communication, Wings, Space

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

Love prides itself not only in the one who loves, but also in the beloved.

Pride, Beloved

Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows - then let your heart say in silence, "God rests in reason." And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky, - then let your heart say in awe, "God moves in passion.

Moving, Passion, Heart

Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.82, Lulu.com

Follow your heart. Your heart is the right guide in everything big. Mine is so limited. What you want to do is determined by that divine element that is in each of us.

Heart, Elements, Want

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.

Wisdom, Kindness, Mirrors

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

A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free.

Freedom, Men, Being Free

Love is the gentle smile upon the lips of beauty.

Love Is, Lips, Gentle

Your house is your larger body.

House, Body

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

God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.

Life, Military, War

Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a spirit who dwells in the soul, whose nourishment is the heart, whose wine is affection. Poetry that comes not in this form is a false messiah.

Heart, Wine, Soul

In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings.

Effort, Society, Gold

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

Spiritual, Pain, Philosophy

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

And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also. For what is your friend that your should seek with him hours to kill? Seek with him always hours to live. For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness. And in the sweetness of friendship, let there be laughter, and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Morning, Laughter, Fun

Khalil Gibran, “Friendship IXX”

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