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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
Poet
Writer
The Spring
Gibran Khalil Gibran
Jubran Khalil Jubran
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I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
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Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
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You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time
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My Lebanon is a flock of birds fluttering in the early morning as shepherds lead their sheep into the meadow & rising in the evening as farmers return from their fields and vineyards.You have your Lebanon and its people. I have my Lebanon and its people.
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You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.
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In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond.
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Have you not heard of the man who was digging in the earth for roots and found a treasure?
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A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, “I will have a camel for lunch today.” And all morning he went about looking for camels. But at noon he saw his shadow again-and he said, “A mouse will do.
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And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
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To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
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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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I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom I am in comfort, I am in peace.
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The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain... When you are joyous look deep into your heart and you will find that it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
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All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.
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What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
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Work is love made visable.
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When a man's hand touches the hand of a woman, they both touch the heart of eternity.
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Let there be spaces in your togetherness
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They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
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If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
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