Khalil Gibran Quotes, Yellow Quotes, Tree Quotes

And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.

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Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister, and the woman-friend, I would have been sleeping among those who seek the tranquility of the world with their snoring.

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I had a second birth when my soul and my body loved one another and were married.

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You are good when you are fully awake in your speech, Yet you are not evil when you sleep while your tongue staggers without purpose. And even stumbling speech may strengthen a weak tongue.

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Your body is the harp of the soul.

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We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.

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Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

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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.

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And that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.

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Your reason and your passion are your rudder and sails of your seafaring soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

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The soul is an embryo in the body of Man, and the day of death is the Day of awakening, for it is the Great era of labour and the rich Hour of creation.

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A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

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If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth.

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The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

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For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.

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He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.

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Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless? And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the center of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds?

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In the autumn I gathered all my sorrows and buried them in my garden. And when April returned and spring came to wed the earth, there grew in my garden beautiful flowers unlike all other flowers. And my neighbors came to behold them, and they all said to me, "When autumn comes again, at seeding time, will you not give us of the seeds of these flowers that we may have them in our gardens?"

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

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The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

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