Khalil Gibran Quotes
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Love is trembling happiness.
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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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Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
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Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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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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Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
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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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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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Your friend is your needs answered.
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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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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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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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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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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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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
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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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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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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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If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.