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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

Khalil Gibran

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Khalil Gibran
Age: 48 †
Born: 1883
Born: January 6
Died: 1931
Died: April 10
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In every aspect of the day Jesus was aware of the Father. He beheld Him in the clouds and in the shadows of the clouds that pass over the earth.
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If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
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And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.
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Which of you would be silent - when all else sings together in unison?
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The first glance from the eyes of the beloved is like the spirit that moved upon the face of the waters, giving birth to heaven and earth.
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Like the seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.
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I have found both freedom and safety in my madness the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.
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Listen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.
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Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.
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I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes.
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Trickery succeeds sometimes, but it always commits suicide.
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Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination.
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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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I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
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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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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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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
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I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom I am in comfort, I am in peace.
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Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.
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This for God and this for myself This for my soul, and this other for my body?
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