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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• Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own… Bleeding
• How can I lose faith in the justice of life, when the dreams of those who sleep upon feathers are not more beautiful than the… Beautiful
• The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. Flower
• It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... but it takes a… Crush
• One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing… Ask
• A God who is good knows no segregation amongst words or names. And were a God to deny his blessing to those who pursue a… Amongst
• Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable? Dread
• We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another, and no sunrise finds us where left by sunset. Even… Begin
• You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept. Emotion
• I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us… Both
• Qualities of Good Citizens... is to admire what others have created in love and faith Admiration
• A truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion. Doe
• Love provided me with a tongue and tears. Inspirational
• Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow. Ache
• Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by concentrating on the… Beauty
• Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do… Alter
• It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life. Now I know that I am the sphere,… All
• Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen… Become Weak
• If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet if I extend… Disappointment
• Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain. Certain
• My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues. Blame
• There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing. Achievement
• When you were a wandering desire in the mist, I too was there, a wandering desire. Then we sought one another, and out of our… Born
• And when you were a silent word upon Life's quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us and we came… Another Silent
• For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly. Bird

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