Khalil Gibran Quotes, Spiritual Quotes, Believe Quotes

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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Love prides itself not only in the one who loves, but also in the beloved.

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All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.

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Why dispute what we shall be, when we know not even what we are.

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If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed.

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If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.

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Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me can praise or belittle me. I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one.

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Death changes nothing but the mask that covers our faces.

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If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet if I extend a hand which is full and yet find no one to receive it, then that is hopelessness.

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Cover me with soft earth, and let each handful be mixed With seeds ofjasmine, lilies, and myrtle; and when they Grow above me and thrive on my body's element they will Breathe the fragrance of my heart into space.

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I learnt silence from the talkative

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Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.

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Yesterday is ever jealous of...tomorrow.

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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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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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I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes.

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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 chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love

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You hate Jesus because someone from the North Country said He was the Son of God. But you hate one another because each of you deems himself too great to be the brother of the next man.

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Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.

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