Khalil Gibran Quotes
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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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Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
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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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When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
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Your friend is your needs answered.
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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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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
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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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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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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
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Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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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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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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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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If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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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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Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
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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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Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
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The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
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Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.