Kahlil Gibran

Puzzles

• Love one another, but make not a ___ of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
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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 ___ unto love.
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• I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ___ to these teachers.
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• Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with ___.
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• We ___ our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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• It is well to ___ when asked, but it is better to ___ unasked, through understanding.
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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Kahlil Gibran?

  • → Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
  • → There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
  • → In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a smiling dawn.
  • → Always tell the truth. You may make a hole in one when you're alone on the golf course someday.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Kahlil Gibran.

  • → If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.
  • → A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.
  • → Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
  • → A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Kahlil Gibran.

  • → Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
  • → Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow – perhaps it all will.
  • → No one has ever become poor by giving.
  • → It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to Kahlil Gibran. Which one?

  • → When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
  • → The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.
  • → Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
  • → It is easy to be solemn, it is so hard to be frivolous.
  
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• Which one of these belongs to Kahlil Gibran?

  • → Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
  • → Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
  • → A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.
  • → The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
  
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• Can you identify the right quote belonging to Kahlil Gibran?

  • → Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.
  • → I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.
  • → In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe all to all men.
  • → When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution.
  
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• Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Kahlil Gibran.

  • → Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
  • → The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.
  • → Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
  • → There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
  
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• One of the following quotations belongs to Kahlil Gibran. Which one?

  • → The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
  • → Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
  • → Tears have cleansed my eyes, and errors have taught me the language of the hearts.
  • → He who has not looked on sorrow will never see Joy.
  
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• Can you guess which one of these belongs to Kahlil Gibran?

  • → The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
  • → In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.
  • → Never place a period where God has placed a comma.
  • → If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
  
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• Try to identify the quote attributed to Kahlil Gibran.

  • → 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.
  • → As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
  • → Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
  • → Bravery is the knowledge of the cowardice in the enemy.
  
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• Looks like Kahlil Gibran is the author of one of these.

  • → It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
  • → Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.
  • → All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
  • → The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
  
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• Pick the one quotation belonging to Kahlil Gibran.

  • → He who has not looked on sorrow will never see Joy.
  • → People think you're crazy if you talk about things they don't understand.
  • → To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
  • → Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
  
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• Which one should be attributed to Kahlil Gibran?

  • → The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
  • → All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
  • → I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
  • → It is wiser to find out than to suppose.
  
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• Can you identify which quote belongs to Kahlil Gibran?

  • → To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
  • → Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.
  • → Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
  • → All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
  
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• Select the quote belonging to Kahlil Gibran.

  • → Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
  • → It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. 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.
  • → A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
  • → A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
  
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• Choose which quotation belongs to Kahlil Gibran.

  • → Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
  • → Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
  • → We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
  • → Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
  
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• Select the quote, which is attributable to Kahlil Gibran.

  • → Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
  • → 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.
  • → Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
  • → Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
  
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