Khalil Gibran on freedom
“Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.”
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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Let your best be for your friend.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
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Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he should be.
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