Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
KHALIL GIBRANWisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
More Khalil Gibran Quotes
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Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
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And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.
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Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
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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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You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.
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Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night.
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All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.
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Love one another, but make not a bond of love.
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Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.
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Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
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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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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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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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Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.
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Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.
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