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Cannot Quotes by Khalil Gibran
- Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you,…
- You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men…
- You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls,…
- The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you…
- You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heath of life? The owl whose…
- You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. For when you strive…
- Who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many…
- Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason…
- Youth is a beautiful dream, on whose brightness books shed a blinding dust. Will ever the day come when the wise link the joy of…
- True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does. Anonymous Love possesses not nor…
- Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work…
- What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless?
- Remember that Divinity is the true self of Man. It cannot be sold for gold; neither can it be heaped up as are the riches…
- Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for the sake of…
- Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work…
- If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
- No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands…
- A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his nest…
- For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.
- You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time
- 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…
- 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…
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- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden