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Khalil Gibran Inspirational Quotes (437)

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There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
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Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.
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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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You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.
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Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.
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Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night and it is not dreamless. Does not your house dream, and dreaming, leave the city for grove or hilltop?
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You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.
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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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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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He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans.
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Like the seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.
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The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
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Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
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In the depth of my soul there is A wordless song - a song that lives In the seed of my heart. It refuses to melt with ink on Parchment it engulfs my affection In a transparent cloak and flows, But not upon my lips.
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For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.
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What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
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And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
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Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.
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For a love to grow through the test of everyday living, one must respect that zone of privacy where one retires to relate to the inside instead of the outside.
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The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it.
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He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.
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Pity it is we drowse too soon Pity it is we fall asleep Ere our song encompass the height Ere our hand inherit the deep
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I came here to be for all and with all, and what I do today in my solitude will be echoed tomorrow by the multitude. What I say now with one heart will be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts.
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Between the shores of the oceans and the summit of the highest mountain is a secret route that you must absolutely take before being one with the sons of the Earth.
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