Khalil Gibran Quotes, Art Quotes, Strong Quotes

Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another ruler with trumpetings again. Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strong men are yet in the cradle. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.

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

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Let your home be you mast and not your anchor.

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He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it.

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The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him he will unfold his wings and fly back to his dwelling place.

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Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.

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Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.

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Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night; and it is not dreamless. Does not your house dream, and dreaming, leave the city for grove or hilltop?

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Many are the fools who say that Jesus stood in His own path and opposed Himself; that He knew not His own mind, and in the absence of that knowledge confounded Himself.

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Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.

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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

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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 let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

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When a man's hand touches the hand of a woman, they both touch the heart of eternity.

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God has given you a spirit with wings on which to soar into the spacious firmament of Love and Freedom. Is it not pitiful than that you cut your wings with your own hands and suffer your soul to crawl like an insect upon the earth?

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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.

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How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper.

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Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding?

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They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see a slave sleeping, wake him and explain to him freedom.

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