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A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
Khalil Gibran
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Khalil Gibran
Age: 48 †
Born: 1883
Born: January 6
Died: 1931
Died: April 10
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Follow your heart. Your heart is the right guide in everything big. Mine is so limited. What you want to do is determined by that divine element that is in each of us.
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Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
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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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A God who is good knows no segregation amongst words or names. And were a God to deny his blessing to those who pursue a different path to eternity, there would be no human who should offer worship.
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Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
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The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness.
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For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.
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The saint and the sinner are twin brothers...one was born but the moment before the other.
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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
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And alone and without his nest shall the Eagle fly across the sun.
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You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
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Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
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Only love and death will change all things.
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And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.
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The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard.
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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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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy
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The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing if we do not honor him he will unfold his wings and fly back to his dwelling place.
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