Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
KHALIL GIBRANNature 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.
More Khalil Gibran Quotes
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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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Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
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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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A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
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Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
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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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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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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
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In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.
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Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.
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If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.
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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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An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
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