Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
KHALIL GIBRANIf your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
More Khalil Gibran Quotes
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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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We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
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You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.
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Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night.
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Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.
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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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Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
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The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.
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I do not want you to hear that I love you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say.
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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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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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Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.
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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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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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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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