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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• A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Character
• I came here to be for all and with all, and what I do today in my solitude will be echoed tomorrow by the multitude.… All
• I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw… All
• I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us. Agreed
• When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Course
• You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall not enslave my… Chain
• Remembrance is a form of meeting. Form
• Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it. Kahlil Gibran (Visions of the Prophet) All
• Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it. Grows
• Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your… Bitter
• Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness. Haughtiness
• For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice,… Angry
• The brooks flow to their lover, the sea, and the flowers smile at the object of their passion, the light. The mist rolls down to… Alone
• If a man loses a dear friend, he looks around and sees many friends come to console and comfort him. If a man loses his… Came
• When you kill a beast, say to him in your heart: ~By the same power that slays you, I too am slain, and I too… Beast
• Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows -… Among
• And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips. Beloved
• And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with… All
• You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care, nor your nights without a want and a grief, but rather when… Care
• God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips. God
• Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” “Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like… Another Day
• Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination. Desire
• Tell your secret to the wind, but don't blame it for telling the trees. Blame
• Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds. Body
• if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall… Laughing

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