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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• 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.… Derision
• Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring… Avoid
• joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep… Alone
• No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands… Absolutely
• Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of… Breaking
• Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the… Child
• Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. Amazing
• You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts. Action
• Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness. Down
• I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward. Absolute
• We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without. All
• Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' Say not, ' I have found the path of the soul.'… All
• An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind. Advice
• For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even… Ascends
• And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its… Beclouding
• A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his nest… Across
• When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense. Beginning
• For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim… Claim
• Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. Caring
• Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician,… Been
• Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. Abolishing
• I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes. Exchange
• To belittle, you have to be little. Belittle
• But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness… All
• Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. Appearance

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