More than 60 Quotes by Khalil Gibran , Poet, painter, novelist and Lebanese essayist, author of works such as The Tempest, Between Night and Day or The Master.
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1-What I leave is not the shirt that I get today and that tomorrow I use again. Do not; It is my flesh that I tear. It is not a thought that I leave behind me, but a heart that my hunger has embellished and my thirst turned tender and bright.
2-The voice can not carry with it the tongue, nor the lips, with whose wings it is armed; The voice goes single by cleaving the space; The eagle, my friend, as he traverses his flight into the sky, does not carry his nest.
3-When love calls you, follow it as steeply as your path is. If he covers you with his wings, obey him, though your back hides his plumage. When love speaks to you, have faith in him, even if his voice destroys your dreams and dissipates them as the north wind blows the garden.
4-All that can give the love is to surrender to itself; And takes nothing that is not of itself. Love has nothing and does not admit to being possessed, because love conforms to love itself.
5. That in your matrimonial life there be a space that separates one from the other, so that the winds of the heavens can blow and dance among you.
6 Let each one of you fill the cup of his partner, but do not drink in a single cup. Let each of you give his bread to the other, but do not eat all of the same bread.
7-Your children are not yours; They are the children of life, who are anxiously looking for themselves. They come into this world through you, but not of yourselves; And, despite living with us, they are not your property.
8-You are the arch and living arrows are our children that life throws from your bow.
9-When you give, you give only the smallest part of your fortune, which would be worthless if you do not make of your charity an integral part of yourself.
10-There are men who give a little of how much they possess. And if they do it is for the sole purpose of gaining fame and reward. In their intimate and covetous desires, they lose the merit of their charity, by the pruritus of vain celebrity.
11-It is well that you give to him who, in begging for charity, has shown you his need; But it is more beautiful that you should give to him who does not ask you, knowing you of his misery and poverty; Because he who opens his hands and his heart has more intimate satisfaction in his action, because he has met the needy.
12-May your act be one of the manifestations of adoration, and may your table be an altar on which you offer pure and immaculate gifts of the fields and orchards, in the holocaust of that"I"that is purer than they And which is rooted in the depth of being itself.
13-Calla, heart, because space does not listen to you. Shut up, for the air, full of lamentations and sobs, will not hold your hymns. Shut up, because the ghosts of the night do not deal with the whisper of your secrets and the courtship of the shadows will not stop at your dreams.
14-Men do not desire the blessing on their lips nor the truth in their hearts, because the first is the product of tears and the second is the daughter of blood.
15 - Arise, heart, raise your voice and sing because whoever does not accompany the choir of light, will continue to belong to the begetters of the shadows.
16-Your daily living is your temple and your religion. Every time you go into it, do it with your whole being.
17-There is a trembling spring in every winter of the heart, and a smiling dawn hides behind the veil of each night.
18-Infinite night that rises on the clouds twilight, crowned by the moon, wrapped in the mantle of silence and wielding the sword of terror.
19-The flowers of the fields are the daughters of the love of the sun and the love of nature. And the children of men are flowers of love and compassion.
20-In some countries, the wealth of the parents is a source of unhappiness for the children. The great solid house which the father and the mother have employed together to safeguard their riches becomes a narrow and sombre prison for the souls of their heirs.
21-I love you because you are weak before the powerful oppressor, and poor before the greedy rich. That's why I cry with you and comfort you. And after a thousand tears I see you, oppressed in the arms of justice, smile and forgive your followers.
22-The true force that prevents the heart from being hurt is what prevents it from growing with its inner greatness. The song of the voice is melodious, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of the sky.
23-Do not progress improving what is already done, but to achieve what remains to be done.
24-It is our inner self that suffers when we disobey and the one that kills us when we betray it.
25-From the suffering have arisen the strongest souls. The most solid characters are full of scars.
26-All the poor are not despised. The wealth of the world is a crust of bread and a coat.
27-Poor brother, poverty gives value to the nobility of spirit, while wealth uncovers its evil... Poor friend of mine, if you could simply know that the Poverty that makes you so unhappy is precisely what reveals the knowledge of justice And understanding of life, you would be satisfied with your luck.
28-For he who instructs himself and who rectifies his own way of living is more worthy of respect and veneration than he who teaches others how to change his way of behaving.
29-Progress is not only about improving the past: it is about going from the front to the future.
30-And do not forget that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
31-When you love, do not say"God is in my heart", but"I am in the heart of God".
32-History is not repeated if it is not in the mind of one who does not know it.
33-If you see a man turning aside from the forbidden fruits that will drag him to unfathomable crimes, judge him with love, because it is God who preserves in him.
34. All of us are not able to look with an inward look at the great depths of life, and it is cruel to demand from the one who has a lowered view that distinguishes what is dark and distant.
35-You can forget the one you've laughed at, but not the one you've cried with.
36-Do not look for the friend to kill the hours, but look for him with hours to live.
37-Only the seed that breaks its shell is capable of daring the adventure of life.
38. A man who can not tolerate the small defects of a woman can never enjoy his great virtues.
39-Get away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy that does not laugh and the greatness that does not bow before the children.
40-To work with love is to build a house with affection, as if your loved one were to live in that house.
41-Law is part of the will, because souls float in the wind from here to there when the strong dominate and the weak suffer the changes for good and evil. Do not deny also the will of the soul, stronger than the strength of the arm.
42-As long as the storm is, the sun always shines again in the clouds.
43-Give little when you give your possessions. It is when you give of yourself when you really give.
44-To understand the heart and mind of a person, do not notice what he has done, do not notice what he has achieved, but what he aspires to do.
45-The nightingale refuses to nest in the cage, so that slavery is not the fate of its offspring.
46. Material things kill man without suffering, love revives him with life-giving pains.
47-I knew a second birth, when my soul and my body loved and married.
48-Loneliness is a comfort to a saddened soul, who hates those around her like a wounded deer leaves her flock, to take refuge in a cave in which it will sound or die.
49-The turtle can speak more of the way than the hare.
50-Man has received from God the power to wait, and to wait steadfastly until the object of his hope removes from his eyes the veil of oblivion.
51-You are your own precursor, and the towers that you have erected are the foundations of your giant self.
52-Hell is not in remorse, it is in the empty heart.
53-If you love something, let it go. If you return it is yours, but it never was.
54-If at night you cry for the sun, the tears will not let you see the stars.
55-It has always been known that love does not know its own depth until the time of separation.
56-If you find a slave asleep, do not wake him; You may be dreaming of freedom. If you find a sleeping slave, wake him up and talk to him about freedom.
57. We have always been our own precursor, and we will be forever. And all that we have gathered and all that we collect will be but seeds for fields still uncultivated. We are the field and the husbandman, the reapers and the harvest.
58-When you get to the end of what you should know, you'll be at the beginning of what you should feel.
59-If you reveal your secrets to the wind, do not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
60-When sadness melts two hearts, neither glory nor happiness will be able to destroy that union.
61. Tears are fire that purifies love, making them clear and beautiful for an eternity.
62. The silence of the envious is full of noises.
63-In the dew of small things, the heart finds its morning and takes its freshness.
64-In every country, every city, in every corner of the world, lives a woman who is the representative of future times.
65. Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the door of eternity.
66- Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
You talk when you stop being at peace with your thoughts.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
69. If your heart is a volcano, how do you expect the flowers to bloom?
70. Your life is determined not by what life brings you, but by the attitude you bring to life. It is not what happens to you, but the way your mind looks at what happens.
71. A friend who is far away is sometimes much closer than one who is by your side.
72. Is not the mountain much more impressive and more clearly visible to one who passes through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
73- Some of you say,"Joy is better than pain,"and others say,"No, pain is the best." But I tell you that they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your table, remember that the other is asleep in your bed.
74. I have learned the silence of the talkative, the tolerance of the intolerant, and the goodness of the wicked; However, strange as it may seem, I am ungrateful to these masters.
75- Because life and death are one, just as the river and the sea are one.
76. Life without love is like a tree without flowers or fruit.
77. Let there be spaces in your unity and may the winds of heaven dance among you. Love one another, but do not make a bond of love: let it be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
78. Let there be no purpose in friendship but in the deepening of the spirit.
79. The eye of a human being is a microscope that makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
If the grandfather of Jesus' grandfather had known what was hidden inside him, he would have remained humble and fearful before his soul.
81. The most pitiable among men is that which converts their dreams into silver and gold.
82- If in the twilight of memory we meet once more, we will speak again together and you will sing to me a deeper song.
83. Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the scope of the test.
Nor will mockery be powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow the footsteps of divinity, because they will live forever. Forever.
85. The person whom you consider ignorant and insignificant is the person who came from God, so that he may learn the bliss and the knowledge that sadness provides.
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness.
87. Love... envelops each being and extends slowly to embrace all that will be.
88. Of the two main prizes of life, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in the hands of a worker.
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to cry, too serious to laugh, and too selfish to seek another than itself.
90- Lust for comfort, that furtive thing that enters the house as a guest, then becomes a host, and then into a master.
To advance is to move towards perfection. Marchen and fear not the thorns, nor the sharp stones in the way of life.
92. Where is the justice of the political power if it executes the murderer and imprisons the looter but then comes to the neighboring lands, killing thousands and plundering the same hills?
93. They consider that I have a sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
Many doctrines are like a windowpane. We see the truth through them but separate us from the truth.
95- If the other person hurts you, you can forget about the injury; But if you hurt him, you will always remember him.
96. Work is love made visible. If you can not work with love but only with aversion, you'd better quit your job and sit at the door of the temple to ask for alms from those who work with joy.
97. Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
98- The righteous is near the heart of the people, but the merciful one is close to the heart of God.
99. What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul, but fears to approach thee?
100. Faith is an oasis in the heart that will never be reached by the caravan of thought.