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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
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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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Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
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Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
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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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Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
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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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You have your ideology and I have mine.
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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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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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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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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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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.