Khalil Gibran Quotes
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Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
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Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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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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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
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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.
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Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
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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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Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
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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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The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
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When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
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Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
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Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
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Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
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Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.