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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
Painter
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Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.
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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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I am forever walking upon these shores, Betwixt the sand and the foam, The high tide will erase my food prnts, And the wind will blow away the foam, But the sea and the shore will remain forver
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The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remain hovering over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves. I am one of those who remembers those places regardless of distance or time.
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The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree if the tree loses one strong branch it will suffer but it does not die it will pour all its vitality into the next branch so that it will grow and fill the empty place.
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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
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When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison. And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, Mayhap he sought escape from something still more unbeautiful.
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And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.
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Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.
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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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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
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Which of you would be silent - when all else sings together in unison?
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Inspiration will always sing inspiration will never explain.
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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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You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time
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Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.
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All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.
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