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Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires.

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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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
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In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond.
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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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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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Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.
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And you receivers - and you are all receivers - assume no weight of gratitude, lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and upon him who gives. Rather rise together with the giver on his gifts as on wings For to be overmindful of your debt, is to doubt his generosity who has the free hearted earth for mother, and God for father.
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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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And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.
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Conscience is a just but weak judge. Weakness leaves it powerless to execute its judgment.
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Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
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You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
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They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.
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When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
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