All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
KHALIL GIBRANIf you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.
More Khalil Gibran Quotes
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Rest in reason. Move in Passion.
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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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All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
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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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Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.
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You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.
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You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.
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The silence of the envious is too noisy.
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How often have you sailed in my dreams. And now you come in my awakening, which is my deeper dream.
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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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All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.
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Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
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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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