How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
KHALIL GIBRANThe nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.
More Khalil Gibran Quotes
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.
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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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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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A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.
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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 things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for 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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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
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But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
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We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
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Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
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Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.
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If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.
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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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