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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• All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself. All
• And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless? Inspirational
• My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love what the people abhor and to show good will toward the one they hate. It… Abhor
• Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man. Enlivens
• Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind. Beautiful
• The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation. Child
• Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others. Fault
• Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister, and the woman-friend,… Among
• Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains. Answer
• Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity. Beginning
• Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery. Becomes
• The very strength that protects the heart from injury is the strength that prevents the heart from enlarging to its intended greatness within. The song… Enlarging
• And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch… Accept
• And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Dance
• Those to whom worshiping is a window, to open but also to shut, have not yet visited the house of their souls whose windows are… Dawn
• Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. Another Day
• The truly good is he who is one with all those who are deemed bad. All
• A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption. Enjoy
• Even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, so the wicked and the weak… Beyond
• The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers. Guffaws
• Let your best be for your friend... Best
• The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy. Biggest
• Like the ocean is your god-self; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like the sun is… Alone
• If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song. Deeper
• When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving… Advice

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