We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
KHALIL GIBRANLove that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
More Khalil Gibran Quotes
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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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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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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
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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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Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night.
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You are far, far greater than you know – and all is well.
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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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Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
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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 mother is everything – she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness.
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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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Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
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Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.
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Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.
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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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