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Quotations by author » Kahlil Gibran
Lebanese born American philosophical Essayist, Novelist and Poet. 1883-1931
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And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.
HeartSeasons
Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you, or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert
Politicians
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
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Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Art
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Beauty
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart
Beauty
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
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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.
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By losing your goal, you have lost your way.
Goals
Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.
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Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
EqualityGenerationsPoverty
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Death and dying
Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.
DesireIndifference
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
DoubtFaithPain
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has really been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much.
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Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Love
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Faith
Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking
Faith
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one
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For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory.
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