Khalil Gibran on faith
“Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.”
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A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
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