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 fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him… Death
• Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight more in breaking… Answered
• For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Alone
• He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both. Both
• And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart: Your seeds shall live in my body, And the buds… All
• Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is… Beauty
• Let us disperse from our aloofness and serve the weak who made us strong, and cleanse the country in which we live. Let us teach… Aloofness
• My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings… Care
• Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness. Knowledge
• Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. Desire
• I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath; I am the memory of a moment of happiness; I am the last gift of… Dead
• You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are… Been
• Work is love made visible. Appreciate
• But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? Drawn
• God has created several doors which open onto truth. He opens them to all those who knock on them with the hand of faith. All
• love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each… Alone
• Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. Forget
• You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time Cannot Laugh
• Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets Children
• Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar? Angers
• Love descends upon our souls by the will of God and not by the demand or the plea of the individual. Demand
• Because the soul is like a flower that folds its petals when dark comes, and breathes not its fragrance into the phantoms of the night. Breathe
• Let there be spaces in your togetherness Inspirational
• He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering. Complain
• We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side. All

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