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Khalil Gibran
Age: 48 †
Born: 1883
Born: January 6
Died: 1931
Died: April 10
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
The Spring
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They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
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Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?
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if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing
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If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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Your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.
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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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I have found both freedom and safety in my madness the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.
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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 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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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
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It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling.
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The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.
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Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.
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Inspiration is in seeing a part of the whole with the part of the whole in you.
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You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men may wake and gaze upon themselves.
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They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.
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If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth.
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Art is a step in the known toward the unknown
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Rob a neighbour with a smile.
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