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Them 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 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 chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that…
- 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…
- In the depths of your hopes and desires, lies your silent knowledge of the beyond, and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams…
- 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…
- Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices…
- Some think I wink at them when I shut my eyes to avoid their sight.
- My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me never to delight in praise or to be distressed by reproach. Before my Soul taught me, I…
- Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.
- They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see…
- I am bored with gabbers and their gab; my soul abhors them. . . . Is there any place where there is no traffic in…
- 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;…
- God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
- God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.
- 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.
- Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.
- In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted…
- You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
- In a dream I saw Jesus and My God Pan sitting together in the heart of the forest. They laughed at each other's speech, with…
- If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
- If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
- We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
- Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
More Them Quotes
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- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster