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The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.

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
Ecstasy
Receiving
Pleasure
Need
Giving
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Love prides itself not only in the one who loves, but also in the beloved.
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Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping, For only the hand of God can contain your hearts.
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The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.
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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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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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Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.
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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
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For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
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For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart.
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A truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion.
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Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?
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All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.
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When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
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When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
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I once heard a learned man say, Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure.
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