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Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Khalil Gibran

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Khalil Gibran
Age: 48 †
Born: 1883
Born: January 6
Died: 1931
Died: April 10
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
The Spring
Gibran Khalil Gibran
Jubran Khalil Jubran
Knowledge
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You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.
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Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.
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All work is empty save when there is love.
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Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.
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You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.
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Learn the words of wisdom uttered by the wise and apply them in your own life. Live them - but do not a make a show of reciting them, for he who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass loaded with books.
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For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
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But now I have learned to listen to silence. To hear its choirs singing the song of ages, chanting the hymns of space, and disclosing the secrets of eternity.
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
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When a man's hand touches the hand of a woman, they both touch the heart of eternity.
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You are far, far greater than you know - and all is well.
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You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time
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Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?
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The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
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Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' Say not, ' I have found the path of the soul.' Say rather, 'I have met the soul walking upon my path.' For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.
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Behind the veil of each night, there is a smilling dawn.
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All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.
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