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Been Quotes by Khalil Gibran
- You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.
- Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill…
- Humanity looks upon Jesus the Nazarene as a poor-born Who suffered misery and humiliation with all of the weak. And He is pitied, for Humanity…
- Man is like the foam of the sea, that floats upon the surface of the water. When the wind blows, it vanishes, as if it…
- It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.
- Behold, I have reached the peak of the mountain and my spirit has taken flight in the heavens of freedom and liberation. I have gone…
- And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
- 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…
- Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
- Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment…
- Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore trust the physician,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
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- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour