We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
KHALIL GIBRANAll can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
More Khalil Gibran Quotes
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Listen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
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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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Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another.
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Rest in reason. Move in Passion.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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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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The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.
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Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.
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He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
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There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
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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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