Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
KHALIL GIBRANObserve the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
More Khalil Gibran Quotes
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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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The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.
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Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.
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Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night.
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Let your best be for your friend.
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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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He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
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And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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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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Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words.
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All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.
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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.
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