Khalil Gibran Quotes
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Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
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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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Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
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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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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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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
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Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
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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 your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
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You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
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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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Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
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When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
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The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
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Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
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Your friend is your needs answered.
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If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.