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Khalil Gibran Quotes about Heart - Page 2

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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

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

Tears have cleansed my eyes, and errors have taught me the language of the hearts.

Heart, Eye, Errors

Khalil Gibran (2015). “A Tear And A Smile - Parables, Stories, and Poems of Khalil Gibran”, p.24, Editora Dracaena

Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.

Heart, Roots, Vines

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.

Dream, Heart, Night

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

I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the multitude. And I would not have the tears that sadness makes to flow from my every part turn into laughter. I would that my life remain a tear and a smile.

Laughter, Heart, Sadness

Khalil Gibran, “A Tear And A Smile”

The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.

Song, Sweet, Heart

The philosopher's soul dwells in his head, the poet's soul is in his heart; the singer's soul lingers about his throat, but the soul of the dancer abides in all her body.

Heart, Dancer, Soul

Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.

Song, Prayer, Heart

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.

Pain, Heart, Hard Times

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

I came here to be for all and with all, and what I do today in my solitude will be echoed tomorrow by the multitude. What I say now with one heart will be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts.

Heart, Solitude, Today

Khalil Gibran, “A Poet's Voice XV”

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.

Peace, Heart, Thinking

Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.96, Lulu.com

At ebb tide I wrote a line upon the sand, and gave it all my heart and all my soul. At flood tide I returned to read what I had inscribed and found my ignorance upon the shore.

Heart, Ignorance, Soul

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

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

Appreciation, Heart, People

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

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

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”

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

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

When you kill a beast, say to him in your heart: ~By the same power that slays you, I too am slain, and I too shall be consumed. ~For the law that delivers you into my hand shall deliver me into a mightier hand. ~Your blood and my blood is naught but the sap that feeds the tree of heaven.

Heart, Blood, Hands

Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.40, Lulu.com

Like the seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.

Dream, Spring, Heart

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

Then it is also in my heart to be worthy of your hate.

Hate, Heart, My Heart

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

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