# Kahlil Gibran's most beautiful sayings

Gibran's best-known lines from The Prophet, Sand and Foam and A Tear and a Smile, with the book each comes from, as given on Arabic Wikiquote and in the Hindawi Foundation texts.

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## Top 14

1. **Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Prophet (1923), on marriage.
2. **Remembrance is a form of meeting.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sand and Foam (1926).
3. **Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sand and Foam.
4. **A person's worth lies not in what they attain but in what they long to attain.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sand and Foam.
5. **Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sand and Foam.
6. **It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one to understand it.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sand and Foam.
7. **Too often we sing lullabies to our children so that we ourselves may sleep.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sand and Foam.
8. **Were it not for guests, all houses would be graves.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sand and Foam.
9. **The difference between the richest man and the poorest is but a day of hunger and an hour of thirst.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sand and Foam.
10. **Your saying that you do not understand me is praise I do not deserve and an insult you do not deserve.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sand and Foam.
11. **A pearl is only the sea's opinion of the shell; a diamond, only time's opinion of coal.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sand and Foam.
12. **We are all prisoners, but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sand and Foam.
13. **You are blind and I am deaf and dumb, so let us touch hands and understand.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sand and Foam.
14. **In every seed there is a longing.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sand and Foam.
15. **Eternity keeps nothing but love, because love is like it.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A Tear and a Smile (1914).

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