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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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The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
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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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They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom
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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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Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?
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Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' Say not, ' I have found the path of the soul.' Say rather, 'I have met the soul walking upon my path.' For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.
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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.
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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Doubt is a foundling unhappy and astray, and though his own mother who gave him birth should find him and enfold him, he would withdraw in caution and in fear.
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For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
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God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.
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Where are you now, my beloved? Do you hear my weeping From beyond the ocean? Do you understand my need? Do you know the greatness of my patience?
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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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The ageless melody, unheard, heals the healing vision, unseen, leads the true leaders, immortal, know...
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Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
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If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.
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From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection.
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Virtue tested: Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?
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For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.
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Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
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