Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
KHALIL GIBRANHow distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
More Khalil Gibran Quotes
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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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Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
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Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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The mother is everything – she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness.
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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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Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
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Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
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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.
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He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
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The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.
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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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And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.
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All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.
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There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
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