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.
KHALIL GIBRANSit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.
More Khalil Gibran Quotes
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Listen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.
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Let your best be for your friend.
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When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
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Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.
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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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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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If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.
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Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
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A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
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The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.
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In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
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Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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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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