Khalil Gibran Quotes
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You have your ideology and I have mine.
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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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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
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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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Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
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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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Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
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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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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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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 in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.
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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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Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
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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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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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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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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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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
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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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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
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The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.