Khalil Gibran Quotes, Giving Quotes, Tree Quotes

You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

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The psychotherapist ... tries to help the individual to be himself and to go it alone without giving unnecessary offense to his community, to be in the world (of social convention) but not of the world.

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To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

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Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

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The man who holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare.

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Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other. The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.

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For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.

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God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

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What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?

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That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.'

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A litterateur is not a confectioner, not a dealer in cosmetics, not an entertainer. . . . He is just like an ordinary reporter. What would you say if a newspaper reporter, because of his fastidiousness or from a wish to give pleasure to his readers, were to describe only honest mayors, high-minded ladies, and virtuous railroad contractors.

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I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .

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No one ever became poor from giving.

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Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

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I don't know how many millions I'll make, so I have to give some back to charity. God blesses me with the money, but only if I give some away.

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It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship

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Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter.

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You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.

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Familiarity gives rise to contempt.

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Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.

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