Khalil Gibran Quotes
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Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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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.
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There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
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The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
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Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
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Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
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If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
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If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.
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Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
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Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
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They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
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Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
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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.
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Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
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What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
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If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
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I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
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Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.