Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
KHALIL GIBRANYou may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.
More Khalil Gibran Quotes
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
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One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
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The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.
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An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
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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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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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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 is timeless. Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.
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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
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And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.
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Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.
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Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
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Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.
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Rest in reason. Move in Passion.
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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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Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.
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A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.
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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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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
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I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.
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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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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.
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We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
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Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
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