The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.
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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How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
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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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The silence of the envious is too noisy.
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A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.
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Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.
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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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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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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
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Love one another, but make not a bond of love.
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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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The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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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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When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
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