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Quotations by author » Kahlil Gibran
Lebanese born American philosophical Essayist, Novelist and Poet. 1883-1931
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For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?
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For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?
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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Cute friendshipFriendship
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
GenerosityPride
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
Generosity
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
Love
He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.
AffectionKnowledgeLife
He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.
JoySorrow
Here 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 is deep and strong and strange.
Loneliness
I am ungrateful to these teachers.
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I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
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I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers
EducationKindnessLearningSilenceTolerance
I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.
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I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Spirit
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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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
AffectionArtIgnoranceKnowledge
If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
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If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Death and dying
If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
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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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