Khalil Gibran Quotes
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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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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?
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If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
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But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
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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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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
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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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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
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Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
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Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
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If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
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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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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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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
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You have your ideology and I have mine.
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Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
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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 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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The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
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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.