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.
KHALIL GIBRANKeep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
More Khalil Gibran Quotes
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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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How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
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A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
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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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Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
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Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
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Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
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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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The best love come from the heart, not from the mouth.
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Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
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The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
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Much of your pain is self-chosen.
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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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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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How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.
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