Khalil Gibran Quotes

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Khalil Gibran

Profession : Poet

Birth : January 6, 1883

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Khalil Gibran

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

Khalil Gibran

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Khalil Gibran

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Khalil Gibran

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Khalil Gibran

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

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Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

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If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

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To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

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The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

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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 delight.

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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

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Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

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I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

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Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

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Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

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