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Quotations by author » Kahlil Gibran
Lebanese born American philosophical Essayist, Novelist and Poet. 1883-1931
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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.
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Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality
OriginalitySin
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution
Kindness
That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man
MankindWeakness
The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.
GodMen
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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The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?
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The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness...
Cute love
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
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The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
PeopleReligion
The life of a flower is longing and fulfilment.
A tear and a smile.
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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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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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The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
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The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg
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The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
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The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose
OptimismPessimism
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
God
The Real me is mute, it is the acquired that is talkative.
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The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say.
Reality
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