62 Khalil Gibran Quotes (Love, Life & Wisdom from The Prophet)

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

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Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; for love is sufficient unto love.

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Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself.

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To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.

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When you love you should not say, God is in my heart, but rather, I am in the heart of God.

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And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

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Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

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But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

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

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And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, and the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

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You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts.

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You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

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Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness; For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.

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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

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It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.

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For in truth it is life that gives unto life, while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.

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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

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Work is love made visible.

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And all work is empty save when there is love.

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When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music.

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And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth.

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Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

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Much of your pain is self-chosen.

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The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

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Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.

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Some of you say, Joy is greater than sorrow, and others say, Nay, sorrow is the greater. But I say unto you, they are inseparable.

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You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

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The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

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Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.

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Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

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Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches.

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And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

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Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

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No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

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If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

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Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

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All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

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A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.

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The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you.

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

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

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The timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness.

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And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless?

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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

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Your daily life is your temple and your religion.

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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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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

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For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?

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Remembrance is a form of meeting.

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Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

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A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.

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