Khalil Gibran Quotes, Lying Quotes, Desire Quotes

In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond.

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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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You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison; but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free!

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And alone and without his nest shall the Eagle fly across the sun.

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Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a spirit who dwells in the soul, whose nourishment is the heart, whose wine is affection. Poetry that comes not in this form is a false messiah.

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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

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Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

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Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.

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And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless? But if in you thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the other seasons, And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.

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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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Love is quivering happiness.

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The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

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And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.

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

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Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf. For in that day you shall know the hidden purposes in all things. And you shall bless darkness as you would bless light.

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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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The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

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The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

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God has given you a spirit with wings on which to soar into the spacious firmament of Love and Freedom. Is it not pitiful than that you cut your wings with your own hands and suffer your soul to crawl like an insect upon the earth?

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A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.

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