Kahlil Gibran's most beautiful sayings
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. · Remembrance is a form of meeting. · Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.. (Updated Apr 5, 2021.)
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.
Automatically translated (original in العربية). See the original
Top 14
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Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
The Prophet (1923), on marriage.
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Remembrance is a form of meeting.
Sand and Foam (1926).
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Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.
Sand and Foam.
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A person's worth lies not in what they attain but in what they long to attain.
Sand and Foam.
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Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.
Sand and Foam.
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It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one to understand it.
Sand and Foam.
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Too often we sing lullabies to our children so that we ourselves may sleep.
Sand and Foam.
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Were it not for guests, all houses would be graves.
Sand and Foam.
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The difference between the richest man and the poorest is but a day of hunger and an hour of thirst.
Sand and Foam.
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Your saying that you do not understand me is praise I do not deserve and an insult you do not deserve.
Sand and Foam.
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A pearl is only the sea's opinion of the shell; a diamond, only time's opinion of coal.
Sand and Foam.
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We are all prisoners, but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.
Sand and Foam.
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You are blind and I am deaf and dumb, so let us touch hands and understand.
Sand and Foam.
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In every seed there is a longing.
Sand and Foam.
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Eternity keeps nothing but love, because love is like it.
A Tear and a Smile (1914).
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