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Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun.

Khalil Gibran

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Khalil Gibran
Age: 48 †
Born: 1883
Born: January 6
Died: 1931
Died: April 10
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
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It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life. Now I know that I am the sphere, and all life in rhythmic fragments moves within me.
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For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
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When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
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I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.
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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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Let your home be you mast and not your anchor.
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Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.
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I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop.
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A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.
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And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.
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The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.
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You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
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The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remain hovering over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves. I am one of those who remembers those places regardless of distance or time.
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The longing for paradise is paradise itself.
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The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree if the tree loses one strong branch it will suffer but it does not die it will pour all its vitality into the next branch so that it will grow and fill the empty place.
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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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