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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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Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Khalil Gibran
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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Khalil 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.
Khalil Gibran -
What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
Khalil Gibran -
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Khalil Gibran -
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
Khalil Gibran
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Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
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If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Khalil Gibran -
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Khalil Gibran -
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Khalil Gibran -
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?
Khalil Gibran -
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
Khalil Gibran
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You have your ideology and I have mine.
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Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Khalil Gibran -
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.
Khalil Gibran -
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Khalil Gibran -
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
Khalil Gibran -
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Khalil Gibran
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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Khalil Gibran -
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Khalil Gibran -
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
Khalil Gibran -
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
Khalil Gibran