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Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination.

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
Determination
Desire
Life
Merriment

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You are good when you are one with yourself. Yet when you are not one with yourself you are not evil. For a divided house is not a den of thieves it is only a divided house. And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom.
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As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.
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And alone and without his nest shall the Eagle fly across the sun.
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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
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Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
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For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.
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Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and your fireside. For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
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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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A word I want to see written on my grave: I am alive like you, and I am standing beside you. Close your eyes and look around, you will see me in front of you.
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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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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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Cover me with soft earth, and let each handful be mixed With seeds ofjasmine, lilies, and myrtle and when they Grow above me and thrive on my body's element they will Breathe the fragrance of my heart into space.
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Inspiration is in seeing a part of the whole with the part of the whole in you.
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When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
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My Lebanon is a flock of birds fluttering in the early morning as shepherds lead their sheep into the meadow & rising in the evening as farmers return from their fields and vineyards.You have your Lebanon and its people. I have my Lebanon and its people.
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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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When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
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It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body
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Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.
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Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness, for even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves also the bow that is stable.
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