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Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.

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
Outside
Struggle
Within
Find
Men
Life
Unaware
Struggles
Seeking

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You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.
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Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another.
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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
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The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.
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Pity it is we drowse too soon Pity it is we fall asleep Ere our song encompass the height Ere our hand inherit the deep
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Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
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Tell your secret to the wind, but don't blame it for telling the trees.
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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
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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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I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.
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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
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For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether?
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Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.
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The saint and the sinner are twin brothers...one was born but the moment before the other.
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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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The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.
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She danced the dance of flames and fire, and the dance of swords and spears she danced the dance of stars and the dance of space, and then she danced the dance of flowers in the wind.
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Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
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Out of my deeper heart a bird rose and flew skywards. Higher and higher did it rise, yet larger and larger did it grow. At first it was but like a swallow, then a lark, then an eagle, then as vast as a spring cloud, and then it filled the starry heavens. Out of my heart a bird flew skywards. And it waxed larger as it flew. Yet it left not my heart.
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The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
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