Khalil Gibran Quotes About Inspirational
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The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
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I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes.
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What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think.
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No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness. If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
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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.
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
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There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.
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joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
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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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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 atom which is called love
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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
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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 us with the radiations of their personalities.
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Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.
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When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.
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The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.
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To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
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But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
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Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
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If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.
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The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
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Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem
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The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
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Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
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Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
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