Khalil Gibran Quotes
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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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They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
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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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Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
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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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Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
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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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You have your ideology and I have mine.
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Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
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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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What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
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Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
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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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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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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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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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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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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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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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Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
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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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The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.