Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
KHALIL GIBRANThe universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.
More Khalil Gibran Quotes
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Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.
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A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.
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Love is timeless. Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.
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Do not keep crying when your love has been gone. You only need Smile because he had been given you the opportunity to meet someone who is better.
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The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
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When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.
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Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
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Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
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How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
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When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.
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Much of your pain is self-chosen.
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Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.
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Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
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