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.
KHALIL GIBRANI 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.
More Khalil Gibran Quotes
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An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
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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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When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
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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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Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.
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He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
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Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night.
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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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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
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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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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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All things in this vast universe exist in you, with you, and for you.
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Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman.
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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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When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.
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You are far, far greater than you know – and all is well.
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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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The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.
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Darkness is dawn not yet born.
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Much of your pain is self-chosen.
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The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
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Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.
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Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
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A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.
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The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.
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We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
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