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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• And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own… Aught
• Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. Drink
• He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin. Best
• You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps. Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping. For… Backwards
• Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. Appetite
• The most wonderful thing, Mary, is that you and I are always walking together, hand in hand, in a strangely beautiful world, unknown to other… Always Walking
• That deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship began the first time I saw you,and it is the same now - only… Apart
• What is fear of need but need itself? Fear
• Let your home be you mast and not your anchor. Anchor
• You are far, far greater than you know - and all is well. All
• Rest in reason. Move in Passion. Best Work
• Life is but a sleep disturbed by dreaming, prompted by the will; the saddened soul with sadness hides it's secrets, and the gay, with thrill. Disturbed
• Let there be spaces in your togetherness...just as strings of a lute dance alone though they quiver with the same music. Alone
• Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me… Been
• Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin… Begin
• Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky. Earth
• The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul. Comfort
• Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond. Coal
• And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing. Day
• We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Another Day
• Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues. Enjoy
• The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Carves
• When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your… Alone
• Defeat, my defeat, my deathless courage, You and I shall laugh together with the storm, And together we shall dig graves for all that die… All
• We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting All

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