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Us Quotes by Khalil Gibran
- Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities,…
- The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach…
- I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together…
- 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;…
- Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as…
- The human heart cries out for help; the human soul implores us for deliverance; but we do not heed their cries, for we neither hear…
- God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us to search our…
- The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among us. He laughed…
- Come with us to the field, or go with our brothers to the sea and cast your net. For the land and the sea shall…
- When we oppose the hidden conscience, it does us hurt. When we betray it, it judges us.
- 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,…
- The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him…
- 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…
- Follow your heart. Your heart is the right guide in everything big. Mine is so limited. What you want to do is determined by that…
- Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
- Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
- Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
- What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
- Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment…
- We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.
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- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
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- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
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- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle