Kahlil Gibran merupakan salah satu contoh penulis yang begitu dikagumi kata katanya (quotes), novelnya begitu banyak dibaca oleh sastrawan, pelajar, mahasiswa maupun publik umum, Salah satu karyanya yang paling terkenal adalah sayap sayap patah (Broken wings). Karena begitu banyaknya karya Kahlil Gibran diberbagai tulisannya, berikut ini Layar Baru ingin berbagi "Kahlil Gibran Quotes"
Kata Kata Kahlil Gibran dalam Bahasa Inggris
“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 other's 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 hearts, but
not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain
your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the
pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow
not in each other's shadow.”
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“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
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“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 other's 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 hearts,
but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can
contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For
the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress
grow not in each other's shadow.”
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“When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and
steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword
hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you
believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north
wind lays waste the garden. For even as love crowns you so shall he
crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches
that quiver in the sun, So shall he descend to your roots and shake them
in their clinging to the earth......
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But if in your fear you
would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, Then it is better for
you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's
threshing-floor, Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but
not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. Love
gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
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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
worthy, directs your course. Love has no other desire but to fulfil
itself."
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these
be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its
melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be
wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and
joyfully.”
“The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that
yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.”
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair”
“To belittle, you have to be little.”
“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.”
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“For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?
Seek him always with hours to live.
For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.
And in th sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
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“And a woman spoke, saying, "Tell us of Pain."
And he said: Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
And
could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life,
your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;
And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.
And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity:
For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,
And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the
Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.”
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“When you part from your friend,
you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him
may be clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.”
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“No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
The
teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers,
gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.
If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.”
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“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 other's 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 hearts,
but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can
contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For
the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress
grow not in each other's shadow.”
“When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and
steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword
hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you
believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north
wind lays waste the garden. For even as love crowns you so shall he
crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches
that quiver in the sun, So shall he descend to your roots and shake them
in their clinging to the earth......
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But if in your fear you
would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, Then it is better for
you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's
threshing-floor, Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but
not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. Love
gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
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
worthy, directs your course. Love has no other desire but to fulfil
itself."
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these
be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its
melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be
wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and
joyfully.”
“The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows
that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.”
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“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair”
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“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.”
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“For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?
Seek him always with hours to live.
For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.
And in th sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
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“And a woman spoke, saying, "Tell us of Pain."
And he said: Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
And
could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life,
your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;
And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.
And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity:
For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,
And the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the
Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.”
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“When you part from your friend,
you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him
may be clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.”
===============================
“No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
The
teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers,
gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.
If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.”
“You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days.
Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
But 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 other's 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 hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”
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“For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?”
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“You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your
weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your
strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the
power of ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures
is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.”
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“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have
ended another, and no sunrise finds us where left by sunset. Even
while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of that tenacious
plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are
given to the wind to be scattered.”
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“Then said Almitra, Speak to us of Love.
And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell a stillness upon them. And with a great voice he said:
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.”
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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.
fill each other's 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.”
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“Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil.
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.”
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“Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself, Love
possesses not nor would it be possessed: For love is sufficient unto
love.”
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“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
“Love
has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running
brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged
heart and give thanks for another day of loving”
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“For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for
your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height
and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall
he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.”
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“And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”
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“Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.”
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“He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.”
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“Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.”
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When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.”
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You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care, nor your
nights without a want and a grief, but rather when these things girdle
your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.”
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“It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked,
through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who
shall receive is joy greater than giving.”
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“Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.”
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“Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and
you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But
you are eternity and you are the mirror.”
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“You often say ; I would give , but only to the deserving, The trees in
your orchard say not so , nor the flocks in your pasture.
Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and nights is worthy of all else from you.
And
he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill
his cup from your little stream. See first that youyourself deserve to
be a giver , and an insturument of giving.
For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you , who deem yourself a giver , is but a witness.”
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“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that
in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater."
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy.”
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“And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is
empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind
yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.”
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“When you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born,
And what is it to work with love?
It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth.
It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house.
It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit.
It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit.
Work is love made visible”
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“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity:
For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen,
And
the cup he brings, though it burn your lips, has been fashioned of the
clay which the Potter has moistened with His own sacred tears.”
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“if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should
spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come
laughing”
