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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.

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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Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets
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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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In truth you owe naught to any man. You owe to all men.
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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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Why dispute what we shall be, when we know not even what we are.
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Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another.
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Saying this, he turned his head toward the window as if he were trying to solve the problems of human existence by concentrating on the beauty of the universe.
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Love descends upon our souls by the will of God and not by the demand or the plea of the individual.
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Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.
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Follow your heart. Your heart is the right guide in everything big. Mine is so limited. What you want to do is determined by that divine element that is in each of us.
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A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.
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Now let us play hide and seek. Should you hide in my heart it would not be difficult to find you. But should you hide behind your own shell, then it would be useless for anyone to seek you.
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Am I less man because I believe in a greater man?
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And that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.
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You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.
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Only those return to Eternity Who on earth seek out Eternity.
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Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
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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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There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
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And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.
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