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Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.

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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I would tell you more of Him, but how shall I? When love becomes vast love becomes wordless. And when memory is overladen it seeks the silent deep.
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Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.
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Should you really open your eyes and see, you would behold your image in all images. And should you open your ears and listen, you would hear your own voice in all voices.
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But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
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It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body
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Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.
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I came here to be for all and with all, and what I do today in my solitude will be echoed tomorrow by the multitude. What I say now with one heart will be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts.
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How can I lose faith in the justice of life, when the dreams of those who sleep upon feathers are not more beautiful than the dreams of those who sleep upon the earth?
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Because the soul is like a flower that folds its petals when dark comes, and breathes not its fragrance into the phantoms of the night.
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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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Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give.
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The longing for paradise is paradise itself.
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When God created Man, he gave him Music as a language different from all other languages. And early man sang his glory in the wilderness and drew the hearts of kings and moved them from their thrones.
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Remember that Divinity is the true self of Man. It cannot be sold for gold neither can it be heaped up as are the riches of the world today. The rich man has cast off his Divinity, and has clung to his gold. And the young today have forsaken their Divinity and pursue self-indulgence and pleasure.
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The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness. He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly
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Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came to make the human heart a temple, and the soul an altar, and the mind a priest.
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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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You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation.
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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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