Khalil Gibran Quotes, Mirrors Quotes, People Quotes

People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

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Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.

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It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

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I am bored with gabbers and their gab; my soul abhors them. . . . Is there any place where there is no traffic in empty talk? Is there on this earth one who does not worship himself talking?

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The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.

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But now I have learned to listen to silence. To hear its choirs singing the song of ages, chanting the hymns of space, and disclosing the secrets of eternity.

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God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.

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Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

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When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.

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

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Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.

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Life is weaker than Death and Death is weaker than Truth.

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Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows - then let your heart say in silence, "God rests in reason." And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky, - then let your heart say in awe, "God moves in passion.

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He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering.

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Let your best be for your friend.

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Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery.

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You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor; and fitter that he should be a victim to the frailty of human instincts than that he should be powerful and crush the flowers of life and disfigure the beauties of feeling with his desire.

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Poverty hides itself in thought before it surrenders to purses.

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A root is a flower that disdains fame.

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Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

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