Khalil Gibran Quotes, Mother Quotes, Heart Quotes

For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart.

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Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.

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As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.

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Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

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I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

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Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

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When we oppose the hidden conscience, it does us hurt. When we betray it, it judges us.

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We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.

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Whoever would be a teacher of men let him begin by teaching himself before teaching others; and let him teach by example before teaching by word. For he who teaches himself and rectifies his own ways is more deserving of respect and reverence than he who would teach others and rectify their ways.

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

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They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.

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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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To barter and lose is better than not to go forth.

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He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth.

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

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Madness is the first step towards unselfishness. Be mad and tell us what is behind the veil of "sanity". The purpose of life is to bring us closer to those secrets, and madness is the only means.

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You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.

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You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth.

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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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You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.

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