For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
KHALIL GIBRANThe universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.
More Khalil Gibran Quotes
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The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.
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The silence of the envious is too noisy.
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You are far, far greater than you know – and all is well.
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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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If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.
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Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
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A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
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If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.
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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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Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
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Let your best be for your friend.
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Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.
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Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.
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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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It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
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Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth.
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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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Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night.
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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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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
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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.
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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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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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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
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The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
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