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Khalil Gibran Quotes - Page 16

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To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.

To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.

Judging, Blame, Weakest Link

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

Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?

Trust, Thirst, Dread

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

And now you ask in your heart, ‘How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good?’ Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower, But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee. For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life, And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love, And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy. * People of Orphalese, be in your pleasures like the flowers and the bees.

Flower, Heart, Garden

Khalil Gibran, “Pleasure XXIV”

Say not, I have found the path of the soul Say rather, I have met the soul walking upon my path.

Spiritual, Soul, Lotuses

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

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

People, Advice, Please

Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?

Heart, Heaven, Suffering

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

Inspirational, Men, Desire

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

All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.

Kindness, Humor, Helping Others

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

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

life unfolds itself in mysteries ways.

Way, Mystery

Now let us play hide and seek. Should you hide in my heart it would not be difficult to find you. But should you hide behind your own shell, then it would be useless for anyone to seek you.

Heart, Play, Would Be

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

For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose windows are the songs and the silences of night.

Song, Morning, Night

Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.56, Lulu.com

It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.

Needs, Hunger And Thirst, Next

The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.

Teacher, Teaching, Giving

Khalil Gibran, “Teaching XVIII”

I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.

Life, Poet, Prose

You have your ideology and I have mine.

Ideology, Mines

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Pain, Reading Poetry, Joy

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

My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me never to delight in praise or to be distressed by reproach. Before my Soul taught me, I doubted the value of my accomplishments until the passing days sent someone who would extol or disparage them. But now I know that trees blossom in the spring and give their fruits in the summer without any desire for accolades. And they scatter their leaves abroad in the fall and denude themselves in the winter without fear of reproof.

Summer, Spring, Fall

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

The longing for paradise is paradise itself.

Paradise, Longing

And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.

Yellow, Tree, Silent

Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.66, Lulu.com

It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear, but rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears.

Song, Eye, Ears

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

Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.

Life, Thinking, Poetry

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

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

Lying, Knowledge, Men

Khalil Gibran, “Teaching XVIII”

All work is empty save when there is love.

Love, Motivational, Success

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

Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.

Freedom, Liberty, Greater

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

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