Khalil Gibran Quotes
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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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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
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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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Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
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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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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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You have your ideology and I have mine.
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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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Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
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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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Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
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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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If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
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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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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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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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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 your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
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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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Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.