Khalil Gibran on beauty
“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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When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran 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.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran The Mother is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Love is timeless. Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran 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.
Khalil GibranKhalil Gibran Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.
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