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Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.

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
Arms
Fleeing
Silence
Wolf
Cities
Reaches
Beauty
Crowded
Enjoy
Rush
Huddle
Nature
Dread
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Like
Sheep
Ferocious
Welcome
Welcoming

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Extreme torture is mute, and so we sat silent, petrified, like columns of marble buried under the sand of an earthquake. Neither wished to listen to the other because our heart-threads had become weak and even breathing would have broken them.
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Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.
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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
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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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We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.
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Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
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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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Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.
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He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.
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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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Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility.
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