Quotes by Halíl Dzsibrán

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I am not one of those who consider trifles knowledge; silence, stupidity and pretense, art.

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The poet is a loner. His clothing is simplicity, and his food is delicacy.

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The poet looks at a withered rose and sees in it the tragedy of the ages; watch a child run after a butterfly and find in it the secrets of the universe...

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The poet... strange creature, having a third eye... who sees what other eyes do not. It also has an inner ear that hears the whisper of days and nights, what other ears do not hear...

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The truth that needs to be demonstrated is only half-truth.

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Desires are half life, indifference is half death.

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If we confessed our sins to one another, we would only laugh at our little imagination. If we showed all the virtues, we would laugh at the same thing.

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If there were no guests, any house would become a tomb.

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To be generous is to give more than you can; to be proud is to take less than you need.

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A woman who loves will forgive everything, but will not forget anything.

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Love that is not reborn every day, dies every day.

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It can happen that a man ends his days out of the instinct of preservation.

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Men who do not forgive women their small faults will never enjoy their great qualities.

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Some people urge me to confess before them, so that they may have the pleasure of forgiving me.

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Exaggeration is a truth that has exceeded its measure.

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The fear of hell is already a hell, and dreams of heaven are already a heaven.

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The authenticity of a person is not in what he shows you, but in what he cannot show. So if you want to understand him, don't listen to what he says, but rather listen to what he doesn't say.

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Despair dims our sight and deafens our ears. We see nothing but the ghosts of the end, and hear nothing but the pounding of our troubled hearts.

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Our most secret tears never reach our eyes.

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Remembering is a form of encounter. Forgetting is a form of freedom.

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I only muted it once. When someone asked me, "Who are you?"

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A person's spirit and passion are the rudder, (...) and the sails of our seafaring soul. If one of them breaks, a person can only toss and drift, or perish motionless in the middle of the sea. For reason, control alone is the determining force; and passion unchecked is a flame that destroys itself.

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How can you wait for the flower to open in your hand when a volcano is glowing in your heart?

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We often borrow from our future to pay off the debts of our past.

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You easily forget those who laugh with you, but you never forget those with whom you cried.

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If you see only what the light illuminates and hear only what the sound communicates to you, then in reality you can neither see nor hear.

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If you hide in my heart, it won't be difficult to find you. But if you hide behind your own mask, no one is looking for you.

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Many women borrow a man's heart, but very few can own it.

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Suffering strengthens the soul. The strongest characters are covered in wounds.

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How can I open my heart without breaking it?

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Love gives nothing but itself, and takes nothing but itself.

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You were born together and you will stay together forever. You will be together even when the white wings of death scatter your days. I say for sure, you will be together, even in the silent memory of God.

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The deeper the sorrow digs into your soul, the more joy you can receive.

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Sadness is a wall that separates two gardens.

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Every winter hides a vibrant spring in its heart, and a smiling dawn awaits behind the veil of every night.

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I learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the impatient, kindness from the rude.

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Protecting the rights of others is the most beautiful and noble end of human existence.

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Trust is an oasis in your heart that the caravan of thinking never reaches.

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Little knowledge coupled with action is worth much more than great knowledge lying idle.

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Stand close to each other, but not too close to each other, because trees don't grow in each other's shadow either.

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If you want to dispel a fear, look for the seat of fear in your own heart, not in the hands of the person you fear.

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You've always heard that work is a curse and a robot is a misfortune. But I tell you, if you work, you have fulfilled a piece of the farthest dreams on earth, the piece that was tailored for you when the dream was born, And while you work, you really love life, And loving life by working means that your intimate acquaintance is the innermost secret of life.

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Your soul is often a battlefield where reason and judgment wage war against passion and appetite. (...) So allow reason in your souls to rise to the height of passion, so that it can sing; And your soul governs the passion with reason, so that the passion gains new strength every day and, like the phoenix, flies over its own ashes.

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The love that anoints also crucifies; and though you are scattered by him, he will prune your branches.

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You are the bow from which your children fly like live arrows. The archer sees the goal in the path of infinity, and he will stretch you with all his strength so that his arrows will fly fast and far. Let the bending of the archer's hand be your source of joy; For He loves both the flying arrow and the bow that is still.

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When love beckons you, follow her, Though all her ways are hard and steep.

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Pain is nothing more than the breaking of the envelope that blocks our understanding. Just like you have to break open the stone of the fruit if you want to get to the seed. So you have to know the pain.

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Only geniuses and idiots break the barriers created by humans.

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Leave your secret to the wind, but don't blame it if it tells the trees.

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We often call life bleak, but only when we ourselves are sad and bitter; and we often find it useless and empty, but only when our souls dwell in disconsolate places and our hearts are full of conceit.

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Love each other, but do not make love a bond: let it be rather a moving sea between the shores of your soul.

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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. Animals are coming, but not from you. And although you have opinions, you do not own them. You can give them love, but you cannot give them your thoughts. Because they have their own thoughts. You can house their bodies, but not their souls. Because their soul lives in the house of tomorrow, where you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

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Guilt is a clouding of the mind, not a clearing.

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You are like the seasons, and though you deny spring in winter, the dormant spring within you smiles in its slumber and suffers no harm.

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A friend is nothing but the fulfillment of our desire. Our friend is the field that we sow with love and from which we reap gratitude. He is a refuge, or even a lifeline. He is the one we can turn to in times of need and find comfort in Him.

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The sea, which calls everything to itself, now calls me too, I have to get on the ship. Because to stay, even though the hours fade away in the night, would be like freezing, turning into a crystal, and the mud binds me. I'd be happy to take everything here with me. But how could I? The voice cannot take with it the tongue and the lips from which it takes flight. You have to find the ether on your own. And the eagle also flies towards the sun alone, without a nest.

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Life is a bewitching phenomenon Who seduces us with her beauty - But who knows her tricks, He escapes her spell.

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What could be a greater merit than the courage, trust, and even charity of acceptance?

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You will truly be free when your days are not without care, nor your nights without need and sorrow, but when all these things intertwine your life, and yet you rise above them, naked and without bonds.

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Be like two pillars supporting the same roof, but do not begin to possess each other: leave the other independent. You support the same roof - and this roof is love.

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The most pitiful of men, who trades his dreams for silver and gold.

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Love does not recognize its depth until the hour of parting comes.

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Life gives itself to life, and you, who consider yourself a giver, are nothing more than a witness.

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If you cannot work with love, but only with loathing, then it is better for you to leave your work and sit at the gate of the church and ask alms from those who work with joy. Because if you bake bread with indifference, you bake bitter bread that satisfies only half of a person's hunger.

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Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses understanding. As the seed of the fruit must break so that its heart can stand before the sun, you must know the pain. And if your hearts could admire the daily mysteries of your life, you would see your pains no less beautiful than your joys; and you would accept the seasons of your hearts as you have always accepted the seasons passing over your lands.

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Just as love adorns you with a crown, so it will crucify you.

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Do not think that you can control the path of love, because love, if it finds it worthy, will guide your paths.

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It is generosity to give more than we can, pride to accept less than we need.

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When you work, you are a flute, passing through the heart of which the rustling of the passing minutes turns into music.

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For the bee, the flower is the source of life, and for the flower, the bee is the messenger of love, and for both, bee and flower, giving and receiving joy is both a necessity and a happiness.

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It is wrong to think that love is the fruit of long time together and persistent courtship. Love is the child of spiritual-spiritual kinship, and if a single moment does not create this togetherness, it will never be born even after many years.

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And when one of you falls, he falls for those behind him to warn you of the rock in which he fell. Yes, and he falls for those who go before him; who were swifter and surer on their feet, but the stone was not removed.

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A woman can veil her face with a single smile.

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Many doctrines are like glass windows. Through it we see the Truth, but it separates us from Reality.

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Love and doubt have never been superficial acquaintances.

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Comfort begins as a lackey and ends as a master.

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Work is love made visible.

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Love does not possess and cannot be possessed. Because love is enough for love.

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Indeed, you hang like a scale between joy and sorrow. Only one who is empty is still and balanced.

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Even when your friend is silent, your heart doesn't stop listening. Because in friendship every thought, every desire, every hope is born without words, with shared and unspoken joy.

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Joy: the change of depth into height. But not the depth, nor the height.

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Sing and dance together and rejoice, but let each other be alone, just as the strings of the lute stand alone, although the same music vibrates on them.

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Life is indeed darkness if there is no will, and all will is blind if there is no knowledge, and all knowledge is useless if there is no work, and all work is empty if there is no love.

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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

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If another person hurts you, you can forget their injustice, but when you hurt them, you will always remember it.

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Only those whose hearts also hold secrets can feel the secrets of our hearts.

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The thought is the soaring bird of the space, which, locked in the cage of the word, can spread its wings, but cannot fly.

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You give little if you only give from your possessions. Only when you give from yourself do you really give.

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Every pearl is a temple built of pain around a grain of sand.

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Grief is a chain made of gold that connects your servile fate with the promising hope of the future.

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Anyone who understands you is more closely related to you than any of your sweet siblings.

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Life is an island in a sea of ​​loneliness. An island whose rocks are hopes, trees are dreams, flowers are loneliness, and streams are thirst.

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You only see your own shadow when you turn your back to the sun.

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Beauty is eternity looking at itself in the mirror. But you are eternity, and you are also the mirror.