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May Quotes by Khalil Gibran
- Perhaps a man may commit suicide in self-defense.
- 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,…
- Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through me? A seeker…
- 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,…
- Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy, you may…
- Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed? See…
- Like sheaves of corn it gathers you unto itself. It threshes you to make you naked. It sifts you to free you from your husks.…
- When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay. And when he is…
- Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun.
- Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may…
- You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture.…
- You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth./The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and…
- Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.
- You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house…
- You are good when you are fully awake in your speech, Yet you are not evil when you sleep while your tongue staggers without purpose.…
- In the autumn I gathered all my sorrows and buried them in my garden. And when April returned and spring came to wed the earth,…
- You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.
- You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
- If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
- When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the…
- Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.
- You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.
- There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.
- For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong