Khalil Gibran Quotes

• Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself…. You may house their bodies but not their souls.For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Family

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

  Khalil Gibran

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Poetry

• If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reveal, Secret, Wind, Blame, Philosophy

• Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Inspirational, Work

• 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.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Inspirational, Love

  Tags in Hidden, Wound, Follow

• Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Fear, Inspirational, Perfection

  Tags in Advance, Blood

• 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.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Beauty, Inspirational, Truth

  Tags in Hand, Found
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  The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Reality, Listen

• We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Grief, Joy, Life

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Joy

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Mankind, Attain
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  Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Music, Language
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  Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Light, Heart
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  Sorrow is too great to exist in small hearts.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hearts, Great
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  Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Own, Separation, Until, Known
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  To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Heart, Understand, Person, Look, Mind
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  Yesterday is but today’s memory, tomorrow is today’s dream.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Dream, Memory

  Tags in Yesterday

• All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Attain, Spirits, Desire

• I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Realized, Desire

Khalil Gibran (127)

Birth:	6th January, 1883
Death:	10th April, 1931
Nationality:	American, Lebanese
Profession:	Artist, Poet, Writer

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