Kahlil Gibran quotes - page 4

Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is a basic law, we are all one before it. He who disdains the mean is himself mean. He who vaunts his scorn of the sinful vaunts his disdain of all humanity. (Kahlil Gibran)
Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness. View quote
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Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. View quote
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Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. View quote
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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. View quote
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Remembrance is a form of meeting. View quote
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Inspiration will always sing; inspiration will never explain. View quote
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Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. View quote
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Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. View quote
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You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. View quote
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A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? (Kahlil Gibran)
The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg. View quote
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The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. View quote
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Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. View quote
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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. View quote
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Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' View quote
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We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without. View quote
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But Master, Sky-heart, Knight of our fairer dream, You do still tread this day; Nor bows nor spears shall stay your steps. You walk through all our arrows. View quote
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Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun. View quote
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We who love Him beheld Him with these our eyes which He made to see; and we touched Him with these our hands which He taught to reach forth. View quote
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Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery. (Kahlil Gibran)
For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, "Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks." View quote
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Do you not remember me, Nicodemus, who believed in naught but the laws and decrees and was in continual subjection to observances? And behold me now, a man who walks with life and laughs with the sun from the first moment it smiles upon the mountain until it yields itself to bed behind the hills. View quote
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You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation. View quote
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In every aspect of the day Jesus was aware of the Father. He beheld Him in the clouds and in the shadows of the clouds that pass over the earth. View quote
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