Kahlil Gibran's Quotes

1. Friendship with other sustenance is not a true friendship, but a net cast into the ocean of life, which will yield nothing in the end. Kahlil Gibran

2. When wisdom is so proud that it refuses to cry, so solemn that it refuses to be happy, and so complacent that it refuses to look at others, it ceases to be wisdom. Kahlil Gibran

3. Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. Gibran

4. What needs to be proved is only half the truth. Kahlil Gibran

5. Faith is the oasis in the heart, which can never be reached by the camel caravan of thoughts. Gibran

6. Exaggeration is truth lost in temper. Gibran

7. A fact is a truth without gender. Kahlil Gibran

8. A shy failure is nobler than a proud success. Kahlil Gibran

9. To love life through work is to understand the deepest secret of life. Gibran

10. May friendship have no other purpose than seeking the deepening of the soul. Gibran

11. Thoughts are like birds in the sky. In the cage of language, they may spread their wings, but they cannot fly. Kahlil Gibran

12. I would rather be the smallest person among mankind who has dreams and the desire to realize his dreams, than be the greatest person without dreams or desires. Gibran

13. You cannot have youth and knowledge about youth at the same time. Because youth is busy with life and does not bother to understand; while knowledge is busy with self-seeking in order to live. Gibran

14. Those who listen to the truth are not weaker than those who speak the truth. Kahlil Gibran's famous quotes, Engels' famous quotes, Roberton's famous quotes, Kahlil Gibran's 15 classic quotes

1. You were once the spirit of Chinese Western learning. Every wind filled us, and your shadow once illuminated us. The light of the face. ----"The Prophet"

2. Just like a teacher thinking of a child, if you are afraid and only seek the peace and fun of love, it is better to cover your naked body and escape. Those who are out of love will use the valley to meet the moon, and escape into a realm where only the winds in winter and summer are strong. You can go here in Zi Xiangran's battle with Xiangran, but it's a pity that it won't give you all your money. This is called Zai Ge. You can really cry in Zi Xiangran's battle with Xiangran, but it's a pity. I can't cry all your tears. ----"The Prophet"

3. If people are forced, the good in them will be unnatural. Even if people are buried, the evil in them will not be eliminated. ----"Emotion and Thought"

4. In my teachings, prayer is a wish for existence, a yearning for life, a finite will versus an infinite will pursuit. ---- "Sand and Foam"

5. I am as almighty as you were when you left, so that I can become stronger; I build my throne on top of the pile of your corpses; I am the only one who can tell the day. In front of her, I lowered my head and felt sorry for myself. I could only kiss my clothes on the tenth day of the month, but I didn’t dare to look up and said that my country was born without my appearance. ----"Prophet"

6. The disasters we endure will become our crown in the future.

7. Inconsistency may be a recent occurrence when thinking about it. ----"Sand and Foam"

8. The entire earth is my motherland, and all humans are my fellow citizens. ----"Tears and Laughter·To Those Who Blame"

9. The human soul has talked with nature several times, but man stood there, dumbfounded, perhaps with tears instead. Words, because tears are the best translators. ----"Selected Prose by Kahlil Gibran"

10. Love, in addition to showing oneself in meetings, is the most important thing in the affairs of the country.

11. If you leak to the wind If you have revealed your secret, you should not blame the wind for revealing it to the woods. ----"Sand and Foam"

12. I do want you to be happy, but I don't want your happiness to exclude me. You should still struggle and suffer! Then, wait for me to rescue you. If you grow up in darkness, you will never be able to get rid of poverty and lowliness, without any arrogant capital.

You cried, you begged, you longed... At this time, I appeared. As long as I give you a little light, you will burst into tears of gratitude. As long as I give you a little bread, you will be loyal to me. If I give you a little more tenderness, you will be willing to tie grass, hold a ring in your mouth, and spread your liver and brain all over the ground...stay by my side obediently. Although this will hurt you, but otherwise how could you belong to me. ----"Prophet"

13. The roots are flowers that disdain glory. ----"Sand and Foam"

14. No, our lives were not in vain. Didn't they pile our bones into a fortress? Nay, we have not lived in vain.Have they not built fowers of our bones? ----"Selected Prose of Kahlil Gibran"

15. You said to me: "I don't understand you." This It just praises me too much and insults you for no reason. ----"Sand and Foam"

16. The quality of a person's thinking does not lie in the fact that he can't think of anything when he doesn't think about it. When there is no advantage, you will show your back and eat your husband. By the way, if you want to know that a lot of people don’t get it when they go out with someone and listen to unspoken thoughts. profit. What I say only half the time makes more sense; I say it so that perhaps he will not hear half as much of it as you will. ---- "Sand and Foam"

17. You always pray in times of sorrow or need. I hope you will also pray in times of full joy and abundance. ----"The Prophet"

18. Faith is the oasis in the heart, which can never be reached by the camels of thought. ---- "Sand and Foam"

19. How strange - all my virtues have brought me harm, but my vices have brought me no harm at all! But I still cling to virtue. ----"Sand and Foam"

20. If their statements about good and evil are all correct, then my life is just a long-term crime. ---- "Sand and Foam"

21. I have despised and despised my own soul seven times. The first time was when I saw her pretending to be humble in order to rise. The second time was when he saw her limping in front of the lame man. The third time she had to choose between difficulty and ease, he chose Yi Shi. The fourth time she made a mistake, but comforted herself by saying that others had made the same mistake. The fifth time was when she tolerated weakness and regarded this tolerance as strength. The sixth time was when she despised an ugly face, but she didn't know it was another mask of her own. The seventh time was when she sang carols but thought it was a virtue----"Sand and Foam" < /p>

22. A person has a complete me, a person who wakes up in the dark country will get it, and a person who sleeps in the light will get it. ----"Sand and Foam"

23. What does it mean to feel bad about water? Isn't evil the first kind of good that suffers from the hunger and thirst of its own style? Indeed, when good is hungry, it is as if it is looking for food in a dark cave. Drink the first month. ----"The Prophet"

24. Except through the night, people cannot go to dawn. Unless my heart is broken, how can the human world be opened?

25. When you know the secret of life, you will want to die, because death is the deepest secret of life. He who is strangled by the voices of the past can never talk to the future. A man who does not condone a woman's shortcomings will never know a woman's strengths. Love that cannot be renewed every day will become a habit and will soon turn into slavery. We cannot understand each other if we cannot reduce the language to seventy words. ----"Kibran Prose Poetry Classic"

26. Give me silence, and I will challenge the night. ---- "Sand and Foam"

27. Even if you can restrain the drum, you can still loosen the strings of the piano, but who can order the skylark to stop singing? ----"The Prophet"

28. All generous actions have sacrifices

29. In fact, what you call freedom is the strongest chain, although its chain The rings sparkle in the sunlight, bewildering your eyes.

When the shadow fades, the remaining light becomes the shadow of another light. ----"Prophet"

30. In friendship, without words, all thoughts, all wishes, all hopes occur and are enjoyed in silent joy. Gibran's

Gibran is an American Lebanese-Arab writer. Known as an "artistic genius" and "the pride of Lebanese literary circles", he is the main founder of Arabic literature. His main works include "Tears and Laughter", "Prophet", "Sand and Foam", etc. In the history of literature, Gibran's artistic style is unique. His works contain both the seriousness and coldness of rational thinking and the romance and lyricism of arias. He is good at discovering the meaningful in the ordinary and revealing profound philosophy in the wonderful metaphors. Americans once praised Gibran as "like a storm blowing from the east and sweeping across the west", and his works with a strong oriental consciousness are regarded as "the best gift from the east to the west".

1. We have gone so far that we have forgotten why we set out in the first place.

2. If one day: you no longer look for love, just love; you no longer desire success, just do it; you no longer pursue growth, just practice; everything really begins!

3. It is only when we are apart that we realize how deep our love is.

4. My soul warned me, it taught me not to be proud of a praise and not to be sad because of a blame. When trees bloom in spring and bear fruit in summer, they don’t expect praise; when they drop leaves in autumn and wither in winter, they don’t fear blame.

5. You cannot have youth and knowledge about youth at the same time. Because youth is busy with life and does not bother to understand; while knowledge is busy with self-seeking in order to live.

6. I have despised my soul 7 times: it could be aggressive but pretended to be humble; it filled it with love when it was empty; it chose easy between difficulty and ease; it made mistakes , but comforts itself by thinking that others will make mistakes; it is free and weak but regards it as the tenacity of life; it despises an ugly face, but does not know that it is one of its own masks, and it turns sideways to the mud of life , although unwilling, but timid.

7. Memory is a form of meeting. Forgetting is a form of freedom.

8. Love each other, but don’t let love become a bondage: it is better to let it become a surging sea, and the two sides are your souls. Fill each other's cups, but do not drink from the same cup. Give bread to each other, but do not eat any of it. They sing and dance together happily, but they are still independent. They talk to each other, but they don't let each other collect them. Because only the hand of life can contain your heart. Stand together, but not too close.

9. Parents are bows and children are arrows. Bows can only help the arrows go where they want to go.

10. I have seen all kinds of slavery, the most surprising one is that it forcibly links people's present with the past of their parents, causing their souls to bow before the traditions of their ancestors and turning them into stale souls. A new body, a new grave of decay. Deaf-style slavery forces people to follow the environment, dye according to its colors, change clothes according to their clothes, listen to the sounds and follow the shadows.

11. A person has two me, one is awake in the dark and the other is asleep in the light.

12. You cannot judge a person beyond your understanding, and your understanding is so shallow.

13. Your pain is the understanding that breaks out of the shell. Just like the core of a fruit must break out of the shell before you can enjoy the sun, you must also understand pain.

14. Hope is half life, indifference is half death.

15. Love has nothing to give except itself, and nothing to receive except itself. Love neither possesses nor is possessed, because love is satisfied in love.

16. Faith is the oasis in the heart.

17. You must love each other, but do not let love become a constraint: let love become a flowing ocean between your souls. Consider each other's glasses, but don't drink from the same glass. Sing and dance together, but still maintain different selves. Just like a pipa, even if they are vibrating to the same music, the strings are still independent.

18. Tolerance is the love of the proud.

19. I also say that life is indeed dark unless there is hope; all hope is blind unless there is knowledge; all knowledge is in vain unless there is There is work; all work is in vain unless there is love.

20. You can try your best to be like them, but don’t let them become like you. Because life will not go back, nor will it stay in the past. ——"Your children are not actually your children"

21. You may forget the people who laughed with you, but you will never forget the people who cried with you. .

22. I would rather be the smallest person with a dream and the desire to realize it than be the greatest person who has lost his dream and desire.

23. You must accept the seasons in your heart, just as you always accept the four seasons spent in the fields. You have to stay quietly and spend the desolate winter in your heart. Gibran's motto

1. Because you are afraid of silence, you go to talkative people.

2. Give me an ear and I will give you a voice.

3. Sorrow is a wall between two gardens.

4. You must stay quietly and spend the desolate winter in your heart.

5. If you turn your back to the sun, you can only see your own shadow.

6. People who are jealous of me praise me without knowing it.

7. Embrace the past with memory and embrace the future with hope.

8. When you are not satisfied with your thoughts, you speak.

9. A woman can cover her face with a smile.

10. The disasters we endure will become our crown in the future.

11. Don’t make a sound, my heart, the world cannot hear your voice.

12. How can I open my heart except to break it?

13. Your reason and enthusiasm are the rudder and sail of your sailing soul.

14. Memory is a way of getting together, and forgetting is a way of freedom.

15. Memory is a form of meeting, and forgetting is a way of relief.

16. We have gone so far that we have forgotten why we set out.

17. Your clothes cover up most of your beauty, but they cannot cover up your ugliness.

18. May friendship have no other purpose than seeking spiritual deepening.

19. Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

20. Yesterday is just a memory of today, and tomorrow is just a dream of today.

21. Faith is the oasis in the heart, which can never be reached by the camel team of thoughts.

22. A great person has two hearts, one bleeding and one tolerant.

23. If you really open your eyes and look, you will see your own image in all images.

24. If winter says: Spring is in my heart, who will believe winter?

25. If you really listen carefully, you will hear your own voice in all sounds.

26. People of Afalis, I will go with the wind, but I will not fall into the void.

27. The place of fear is in your heart, not in the hands of the person you fear.

28. Love that is not renewed every day becomes a habit, and finally turns into slavery.

29. Strangely enough, the desire for certain entertainments is also part of my pain.

30. Unless we reduce our language to seven words, we will never understand each other.

31. I lay in the dust of Egypt for a long time, silent, forgetting the seasons.

32. How noble it is to be able to sing happy songs to a sad heart with a happy heart.

33. The sound cannot take away the lips and tongue that gave it wings. It can only search for the sky alone.

34. When you love, please don’t say God is in my heart, but say I am in God’s heart.

35. In the morning, wake up with a heart full of wings, grateful for another day full of love.

36. A person has two me, one is awake in the dark, and the other is asleep in the light.

37. The first thought when you think of God is an angel, and the first word when you think of God is human.

38. Take off the mask and your joy is your sorrow. Happiness always depends on pain.

39. When love calls to you, follow him, although his journey is difficult and steep.

40. We have chosen our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

41. If you leaked your secret to the wind, you should not blame the wind for leaking the secret to the forest.

42. The things we want but cannot get are always more valuable than the things we have already obtained.

43. Don’t forget that the earth likes to be in contact with your bare feet, and the wind wants to play with your hair.

44. When I opened my eyes, what I saw was darkness; when I opened my mouth to speak, all I said was sadness.

45. When you work lovingly, you become one with yourself, with humanity, and with God.

46. Those who can only share happiness with you but not suffer with you have lost one of the keys to the seven doors of heaven.

47. Half of what I say to you is meaningless; I say it because I hope you hear the other half.

48. When kindness looks at itself in the mirror, it will turn into a stubborn stone. When good deeds claim to have a good reputation, they become the source of curses.

49. Poetry is not an expression of an opinion, it is a song that emerges from a bleeding wound or smiling lips.

50. If your heart is a volcano, how can you expect flowers to bloom from your hands?

51. If you reveal your secret to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing the secret to the woods.

52. If a man cannot forgive women’s minor faults, he will never be able to appreciate their great virtues.

53. Thought is a bird that belongs to the sky. In the cage of language, it may spread its wings, but it cannot fly.

54. When trees bloom in spring and bear fruit in summer, they don’t expect praise; when they drop leaves in autumn and wither in winter, they don’t fear blame.

55. The truth requires two of us to discover it together: one person speaks it, and the other understands it.

56. If what they say about good and evil is correct, then my life is just one long crime.

57. Every man loves two women: one is a work of his imagination, and the other is not yet born.

58. I often blame sins that I have never committed on myself to make others feel comfortable in my presence.

59. I uprooted the tree of soul from the soil where it grew, and even abandoned the souvenirs that time left for it.

60. A long time ago, a man was crucified on the cross because he loved others too much and was too cute.

61. Trees are poems written by the earth on the sky. We cut down trees to make paper to record our emptiness.

62. Love each other, but don’t let love become a constraint; let love become the sea flowing between the shores of your souls.

63. Many theories are like a window through which we see the truth, but it also separates us from the truth.

64. I often hate people trying to defend themselves; if I were a stronger person, I would not use such weapons.

65. When my glass is empty, I leave it empty; but when it is half full, I hate it for being half full.

66. The person who talks the most is the least intelligent person. There is almost no difference between a speaker and an auctioneer.

67. Your mind is often a battlefield. On this battlefield, your reason and judgment are at war with your passion and lust.

68. You may forget the person who laughed with you, but you will never forget the person who cried with you.

69. Friendship with no sustenance is not a true friendship, but a net cast into the ocean of life, which in the end will yield nothing.

70. Enjoyment is a song of freedom, but it is not freedom. It is the flower of your hopes that bloom, but not their fruit.

71. Your souls understand the secrets of day and night in silence. Your ears long to hear the knowledge and voices of your hearts.

72. When wisdom is so proud that it refuses to cry, is so solemn that it refuses to be happy, and is so complacent that it refuses to look at others, it ceases to be wisdom.

73. I can talk about the good in you, but I can’t talk about the evil. For isn’t evil just good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

74. Your joy is your sorrow without the mask. Even your well, which overflows with joy, is often filled with your tears.

75. When life cannot find a singer to sing her feelings, she will create a philosopher to express her thoughts.

76. If he is really wise, he will not let you enter the palace of his wisdom, but guide you to cross the threshold of your own thoughts.

77. Your other you is always sad for you. But your other you is growing in sadness; then everything will be fine.

78. When you forgive the murderer who never killed, the thief who never stole, and the liar who never lied, you are a truly tolerant person.

79. Dedicate your hearts, but it does not require you to hold on to each other's hearts. Because only the hand of life can hold your heart.

80. You cannot eat more than your appetite. Half of the food belongs to others, and some bread must be left for uninvited guests.

81. They only see their own shadow, and their shadow is their law. To them, the sun is just a projector.

82. Please do not use your acquired virtues to cover up your innate shortcomings. I would rather you had those deficiencies; for they are the same as my own.

83. When you can no longer live in the loneliness of your heart, you have to live on your lips, and sound is a pastime and entertainment.

84. If my blood does not flow according to your wishes, you can pour it away; if my feet do not travel on your path, you can paralyze it.

85. A green field stretches between scholars and poets? If a scholar passes through, he becomes a sage; if a poet passes through, he becomes a prophet.

86. I will always walk on this coast, between the fine sand and foam. The rising tide will erase my footprints, and the sea breeze will blow away the foam, but the shore will last forever.

87. You can protect your children’s bodies, but you cannot imprison their souls. The soul of a child resides in the House of Tomorrow, a place you cannot visit even in your dreams.

88. Let’s play hide and seek. If you are hidden in my heart, it will not be difficult to find you. But if you hide in your shell, no one can find it.

89. Yes, there is nirvana in the world. It is when you bring the sheep to the green pasture, when you coax your children to sleep, when you write the last line of poetry. .

90. If one day: you no longer look for love, just love; you no longer desire success, just do it; you no longer pursue growth, just practice; everything really begins!

91. Life is like the rising sun, and the dawn has appeared. Can you believe it, I started to love life because it is full of things to do, problems after problems, and dreams after dreams.

92. Those who investigate, study, and then write are a quarter of writers; those who observe and describe are half writers; those who feel, convey, and tell others their feelings are complete writers. .

93. I am the sigh of the sea, the tears of the sky, and the smile of the fields. This love is so cool: it is the sigh of the sea of ??emotions, the tears of the sky of thought, and the smile of the spiritual field.

94. I have received the teachings of Confucius; I have heard the truth of Brahma; I have also sat under the Bodhi tree and accompanied the Buddha Sakyamuni.

But now I am still confused. Whether I believe in gods or not, I am still struggling.

95. The soul is a sacred blazing blue torch, swallowing dry wood, using the strength of the wind, to illuminate the face of God. But your souls, compatriots, are ashes, scattered in the valley by the storm.

96. It’s late at night and everyone is sleeping in their dreams, but I stay awake all night; sometimes singing, sometimes sighing. Alas! Being up all night made me feel haggard. Because I am full of love, and the true meaning of love is sobriety.

97. Love gathers you around like a sheaf of wheat. It separates you and makes you naked. It sifts you and separates you from the chaff. It grinds you until you are clean. It kneads you until you are pliable.

98. Your most gorgeous robe is woven by someone else; your most delicious meal is eaten at someone else’s table; your most comfortable bed is in someone else’s house. . So tell me, how can you separate yourself from others?

99. Your souls are twitching with hunger, but there are more breads of knowledge than there are stones in the valley. Why don’t you eat them? Your souls tremble with thirst, and the sweet spring of life flows like a stream around your homes. Why don't you drink?