Khalil Gibran

"The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold."

-Khalil Gibran

"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires."

-Khalil Gibran

"Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity."

-Khalil Gibran

"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes."

-Khalil Gibran

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"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."

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"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."

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"Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof."

-Khalil Gibran

"Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever."

-Khalil Gibran

"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking."

-Khalil Gibran

"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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"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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"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."

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"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."

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"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."

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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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"The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God."

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"Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain."

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"Love is trembling happiness."

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"Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness."

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"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."

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"Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain."

-Khalil Gibran

"No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge."

-Khalil Gibran

"Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge."

-Khalil Gibran

"Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof."

-Khalil Gibran

"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."

-Khalil Gibran

"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."

-Khalil Gibran

"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."

-Khalil Gibran

"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."

-Khalil Gibran

"Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds."

-Khalil Gibran

"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."

-Khalil Gibran

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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."

-Khalil Gibran

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you."

-Khalil Gibran

"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."

-Khalil Gibran

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."

-Khalil Gibran

"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."

-Khalil Gibran

"Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness."

-Khalil Gibran

"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."

-Khalil Gibran

"Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all."

-Khalil Gibran

"To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice."

-Khalil Gibran

"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."

-Khalil Gibran

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."

-Khalil Gibran

"Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love."

-Khalil Gibran

"Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be."

-Khalil Gibran

"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 love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit."

-Khalil Gibran

"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."

-Khalil Gibran

"And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

-Khalil Gibran

"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."

-Khalil Gibran

"Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."

-Khalil Gibran

"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."

-Khalil Gibran

"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

-Khalil Gibran

"Love is trembling happiness."

-Khalil Gibran

"Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms."

-Khalil Gibran

"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work."

-Khalil Gibran

"When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you."

-Khalil Gibran

"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes."

-Khalil Gibran

"Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers."

-Khalil Gibran