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This for God and this for myself This for my soul, and this other for my body?
Khalil Gibran
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Khalil Gibran
Age: 48 †
Born: 1883
Born: January 6
Died: 1931
Died: April 10
Painter
Philosopher
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The Spring
Gibran Khalil Gibran
Jubran Khalil Jubran
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Soul
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Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
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You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet you may even throw me into a dark prison but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free!
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For truth and the spirit will abide with the morrow.
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When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
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And when you were a silent word upon Life's quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us and we came down the years throbbing with memories of yesterday and with longing for tomorrow, for yesterday was death conquered and tomorrow was birth pursued.
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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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Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
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Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
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When we oppose the hidden conscience, it does us hurt. When we betray it, it judges us.
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He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
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There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.
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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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I am forever walking upon these shores, Betwixt the sand and the foam, The high tide will erase my food prnts, And the wind will blow away the foam, But the sea and the shore will remain forver
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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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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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Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.
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A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.
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Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing. Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that 'yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
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You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time
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