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25 Lessons from Khalil Gibran that Can

Totally Transform Your Life

Today I would like to share with you 25 beautiful life changing lessons to learn
from Khalil Gibran. Author of one of my favorite books of all time, The Prophet.
Enjoy.

1. Be thankful for the difficult times. They have showed


you how strong you can be.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive
characters are seared with scars.

2. Kindness is a quality of the strong.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but
manifestations of strength and resolution.

3. Theres no such thing as absolute truth.


Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.
I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and
therein lies my honor and my reward.

4. Its the small people who try to belittle and humiliate


others.
To belittle, you have to be little.

5. The harm others do to you is easier to forget than the


harm you do to others.
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him
you will always remember.
6. You might forget those who made you laugh, but you will never forget those
who were by your side in your darkest hours.
You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom
you wept.
Hear ts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness.
Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure.
Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful.

7. Its the simple things in life that are the most


extraordinary.
In the sweetness of friendship; let there be laughter and the sharing of

pleasures. For in the dew of little things the hear t finds its morning and is
refreshed.

8. Love is life. And life is love.


When you love you should not say, God is in my hear t, but rather, I am in
the hear t of God.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

9. Put love into your work.


Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with
distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the
temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with
indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half mans hunger. And if you
grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distills a poison in the wine. And if
you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle mans ears to the
voices of the day and the voices of the night.
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them
mad because they think my days have a price.

10. To understand the heart and mind of a person, look


at what he aspires to be.
To understand the hear t and mind of a person, look not at what he has
already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Trust in dreams, for in them is the hidden gate to eternity.

11. True love cant be possessed.


Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you wor thy, directs your
course. Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

12. Seek to put up with bad manners pleasantly.


The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners
pleasantly.

13. Love binds everything together in perfect harmony.


They say: If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind. I say: If a man
loved mankind, he would know something of himself.

14. Always look on the bright side of life.


The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the
thorns, oblivious to the rose.

15. We dont see things as they are. We see things as we


are.
The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see
magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.

16. True love is the offspring of spiritual affinity.


It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering
cour tship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created
in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

17. Let there be space in your relationship.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens
dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a
moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each others cup but drink not
from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing
and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the
strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hear ts,
but not into each others keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hear ts.
And stand together, yet not too near together : For the pillars of the temple stand
apar t, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each others shadow.

18. If you pray when it rains, make sure you also pray
when the sun shines.
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in
the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

19. When you give of yourself, thats when you truly


give.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of
yourself that you truly give.

20. Real beauty comes from within.


Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the hear t.

21. Your children are not your children. They are sons
and daughters of Lifes longing for itself.
Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of Lifes
longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with
you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts,

for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for
their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your
dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.

22. Every relationship should be free from bondage.


No human relation gives one possession in anotherevery two souls are
absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands
together to find what one cannot reach alone.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours.
And if they dont, they never were.

23. Be thankful for both the good and the bad in your
life. Its all meant to teach you something.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and
kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
When you are joyous, look deep into your hear t and you shall find it is only
that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look
again in your hear t, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which
has been your delight.

24. Your attitude towards life will determine lifes attitude


towards you.
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the
attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your
mind looks at what happens.

25. A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer


than one who is at hand.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is
not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing
through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
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