Khalil Gibran Quotes, Song Quotes, Art Quotes

He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.

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The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.

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Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress." And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without." At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty."

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A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.

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A minute moving among the patterns of beauty and the dreams of love is greater and more precious than an age filled with splendor granted by the weak to the strong.

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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.

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When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.

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Life without Freedom is like a body without a soul, and Freedom without Thought is like a confused spirit. . . . Life, Freedom and Thought are three-in-one, and are everlasting and shall never pass away.

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He that tries to seize an opportunity after it has passed him by is like one who sees it approach but will not go to meet it.

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He who does not seek advice is a fool. His folly blinds him to Truth and makes him evil, stubborn, and a danger to his fellow man.

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Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

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Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.

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When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

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Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?

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Inspiration will always sing; inspiration will never explain.

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Man is like the foam of the sea, that floats upon the surface of the water. When the wind blows, it vanishes, as if it had never been. Thus are our lives blown away by Death.

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Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight more in breaking them.

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The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body.

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It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life. Now I know that I am the sphere, and all life in rhythmic fragments moves within me.

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Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.

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