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People 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 sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is…
- Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things in the world;…
- 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…
- People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing…
- When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.
- My Lebanon is a flock of birds fluttering in the early morning as shepherds lead their sheep into the meadow & rising in the evening…
- Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.
- To be closer to god, be closer to people.
- Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
- To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
- Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
- Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
- The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
- Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring…
- Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
- Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who…
- But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall…
- And now you ask in your heart, ‘How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good?’ Go to…
- 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…
- Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came…
- 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…
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