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Kahlil Gibran Quotes

1883–1931 Lebanon

Gibran Khalil Gibran (6 January 1883 – 10 April 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist.

Lebanon
Novelists
Painters
Poets
Short story writers

Also known as: Gibran, Khalil, Khalil Gibran

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105 quotes

Always have we been our own forerunners, and always shall we be. And all that we have gathered and shall gather shall be but seeds for fields yet unploughed. We are the fields and the ploughmen, the gatherers and the gathered.

The Forerunner (1920)

The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.

Sand and Foam (1926)

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

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Travel and tell no one. Have a true love story and tell no one. Live happily and tell no one. People ruin beautiful things.

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And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kahlil Gibran (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.