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Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets

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
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Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination.
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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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Give me an ear and I will give you a Voice.
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Do not keep crying when your love has been gone. You only need Smile because he had been given you the opportunity to meet someone who is better.
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I would tell you more of Him, but how shall I? When love becomes vast love becomes wordless. And when memory is overladen it seeks the silent deep.
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They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
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You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
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Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
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The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
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The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard.
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you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
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Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a spirit who dwells in the soul, whose nourishment is the heart, whose wine is affection. Poetry that comes not in this form is a false messiah.
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Where are you now, my beloved? Do you hear my weeping From beyond the ocean? Do you understand my need? Do you know the greatness of my patience?
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He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.
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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.
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I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.
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