Khalil Gibran Quotes, Adversity Quotes, Hardship Quotes

Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility.

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

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if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing

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Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.

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And you receivers - and you are all receivers - assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives. Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings; For to be overmindful of your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has the free hearted earth for mother, and God for father.

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Conscience is a just but weak judge. Weakness leaves it powerless to execute its judgment.

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Your saying 'I do not understand you' is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve.

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The sea that calls all things unto her cals me, and I must embark.

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When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, "Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison." And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, "Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful.

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The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is healed or dead.

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Love is a sacred mystery. To those who love, it remains forever wordless; But to those who do not love, it may be but a heartless jest.

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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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Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for the sake of the Truth? It is our inner selves that hurt us when we disobey it, and it kills us when we betray it.

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Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist.

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Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.

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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

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Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

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Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.

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Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born.

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