Khalil Gibran

Poet

1883-01-06 – 1931-04-10

Khalil Gibran was a Lebanese-American poet, writer, and visual artist best known for The Prophet. His work blended spiritual and philosophical themes and became widely influential in both Arabic and English literature.

Quotes by Khalil Gibran

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
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Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
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I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
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Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
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Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
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If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
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Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
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If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
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Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
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Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
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