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Other Quotes by Khalil Gibran
- In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of…
- 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…
- Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress."…
- If we were to all sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality.
- Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.
- Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless? And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed…
- When God created Man, he gave him Music as a language different from all other languages. And early man sang his glory in the wilderness;…
- Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born
- The saint and the sinner are twin brothers...one was born but the moment before the other.
- Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires.
- 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,…
- Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many…
- Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse.
- Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
- If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
- joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep…
- Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen…
- Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
- I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.
- Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” “Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like…
- We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings with his fingers…
- Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.
- Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. And that…
- 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…
- 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…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour