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Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Khalil Gibran
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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.
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If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
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Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
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They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
Khalil Gibran -
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Khalil Gibran -
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.
Khalil Gibran
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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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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.
Khalil Gibran -
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Khalil Gibran -
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.
Khalil Gibran
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Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
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The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
Khalil Gibran -
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
Khalil Gibran -
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
Khalil Gibran -
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Khalil Gibran -
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Khalil Gibran
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Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
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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.
Khalil Gibran -
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
Khalil Gibran -
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
Khalil Gibran