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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"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"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."
Khalil Gibran"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work."
Khalil Gibran"Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people."
Khalil Gibran"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."
Khalil Gibran"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."
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"The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold."
Khalil Gibran"Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity."
Khalil Gibran"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
Khalil Gibran"Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof."
Khalil Gibran"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."
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."
Khalil Gibran"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"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."
Khalil Gibran"Your friend is your needs answered."
Khalil Gibran"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."
Khalil Gibran"Love is trembling happiness."
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"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."
Khalil Gibran"Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain."
Khalil Gibran"Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge."
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"No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge."
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"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."
Khalil Gibran"Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be."
Khalil Gibran"If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?"
Khalil Gibran"Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love."
Khalil Gibran"Life without liberty is like a body without 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"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"If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul."
Khalil Gibran"And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
Khalil Gibran"Sadness is but a wall between two gardens."
Khalil Gibran"When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. 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"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."
Khalil Gibran"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
Khalil Gibran"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"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."
Khalil Gibran"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"Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration."
Khalil Gibran"Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert."
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"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."
Khalil Gibran"Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents."
Khalil Gibran"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself."
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"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes."
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."
Khalil Gibran"Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self."
Khalil Gibran"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
Khalil Gibran"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary."
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