QUOTES by Kahlil Gibran
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If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
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Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
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One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
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If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.
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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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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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I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes.
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Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
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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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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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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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For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
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No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.
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Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding?
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Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep." Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"
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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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In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of people's wrath.
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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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There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.
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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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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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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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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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And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
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The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
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