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Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.

Khalil Gibran

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Khalil Gibran
Age: 48 †
Born: 1883
Born: January 6
Died: 1931
Died: April 10
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The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.
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Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality
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And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement. They should remember their pleasures with gratitude, as they would the harvest of a summer.
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You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.
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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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Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
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Let there be spaces in your togetherness...just as strings of a lute dance alone though they quiver with the same music.
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Only those return to Eternity Who on earth seek out Eternity.
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What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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Give me an ear and I will give you a Voice.
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But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
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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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I am the lover's gift I am the wedding wreath I am the memory of a moment of happiness I am the last gift of the living to the dead I am a part of joy and a part of sorrow.
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When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.
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Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On greater pirates we bestow. To steal a flower we call mean. To rob a field is chivalry Who kills the body he must die, Who kills the spirit he goes free.
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Let your best be for your friend.
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Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?
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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom
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