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Kahlil Gibran Quotes

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
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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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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
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Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
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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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To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
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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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Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
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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.
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Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
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Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
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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.
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There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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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.
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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.
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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
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Love is trembling happiness.
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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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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
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Love... It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
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Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
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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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Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
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What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
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What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
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When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
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Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
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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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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.
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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.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
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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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Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
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Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
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You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
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You have your ideology and I have mine.
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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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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.
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Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
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Your friend is your needs answered.
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All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
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All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
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An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
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Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
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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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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
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Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
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Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
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The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
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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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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
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Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
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Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
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Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
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Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
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The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
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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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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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The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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