Khalil Gibran
Quotations
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“When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?” -Khalil Gibran
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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
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“Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.” -Khalil Gibran
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“Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.” -Khalil Gibran
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“Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.” -Khalil Gibran
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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.” -Khalil Gibran
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“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.” -Khalil Gibran
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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.” -Khalil Gibran
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“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.” -Khalil Gibran
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“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.” -Khalil Gibran
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“Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.” -Khalil Gibran
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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?” -Khalil Gibran
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“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.” -Khalil Gibran
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“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.” -Khalil Gibran
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“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” -Khalil Gibran
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“When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?” -Khalil Gibran
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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.” -Khalil Gibran
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“The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.” -Khalil Gibran
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“Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.” -Khalil Gibran
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“Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.” -Khalil Gibran
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“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.” -Khalil Gibran
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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.” -Khalil Gibran
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“Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.” -Khalil Gibran
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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.” -Khalil Gibran
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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
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“The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.” -Khalil Gibran
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“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” -Khalil Gibran
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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.” -Khalil Gibran
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“Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.” -Khalil Gibran
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“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.” -Khalil Gibran
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“Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.” -Khalil Gibran
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“Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.” -Khalil Gibran
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“If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.” -Khalil Gibran
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“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.” -Khalil Gibran
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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.” -Khalil Gibran
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“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.” -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
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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.” -Khalil Gibran
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