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You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.

Khalil Gibran

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Khalil Gibran
Age: 48 †
Born: 1883
Born: January 6
Died: 1931
Died: April 10
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
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All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.
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They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.
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There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.
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They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
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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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When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
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A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption.
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The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.
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Conscience is a just but weak judge. Weakness leaves it powerless to execute its judgment.
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Work is love made visable.
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Inspiration will always sing inspiration will never explain.
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No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.
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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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If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.
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And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.
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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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I learnt silence from the talkative
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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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