Khalil Gibran ✓

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[Wikipedia] Jubrān Khalīl Jubrān, usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist. He was also considered a philosopher, although he himself rejected the title. He is best known as the author of The Prophet, which was first published in the United States i

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• Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many… All
• Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you. Carved
• Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Course
• A sense of humour is a sense of proportion. Humour
• To be closer to god, be closer to people. Closer
• Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse. Close
• There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their… Charity
• Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of… Befit
• If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed. Despot
• A root is a flower that disdains fame. Disdain
• Even while the Earth sleeps we travel. Earth
• Am I less man because I believe in a greater man? Believe
• You hate Jesus because someone from the North Country said He was the Son of God. But you hate one another because each of you… Brother
• Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Doubt is a foundling unhappy and astray, and though his own… Astray
• Behold, I have reached the peak of the mountain and my spirit has taken flight in the heavens of freedom and liberation. I have gone… Anthem
• He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days. Days
• Your body is the harp of the soul. Body
• He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage. Bird
• The longing for paradise is paradise itself. Inspirational
• The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him… Among
• In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted… Affliction
• Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless. Boundless
• Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for the sake of… Betray
• That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man. Appear
• Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and… Discord

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