A quotations by kahlil gibran

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· Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

· Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

· A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free.

· Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

· Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

· Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

· The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

· You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.

· Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

· We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.

· It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.

· He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.

· Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

· What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think

· By losing your goal, you have lost your way.

· There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

· All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

· Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

· If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

· Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

· The highest virtue here may be the least in another world.

· Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.

· We are expression of earth, and of life - not separate individuals only.

· Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

· The envious praises me unknowingly.

· And think not you can guide the course of love. For love, if it finds you worthy, shall guide your course.

· Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

· If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

· To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

· Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.

· What difference does it make, whether you live in a big city or in a community of homes ? The real life is within.

· Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

· If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

· Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

· How shall my heart be unsealed unless it be broken.

· Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

· Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

· A true hermit goes to the wilderness to find - not to lose himself.

· Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.

· Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

· Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

· In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

· Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.

· Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

· It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.

· Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.

· Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

· If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

· One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night .

· We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

· The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

· Your pain is the breaking of the ****l that encloses your understanding.

· In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.

· In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.

· Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.

· Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

· You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

· Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

· You are blind and I am deaf and dumb, so let us touch hands and understand.

· Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

· Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.

· Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.

· Knowledge is life with wings.

· If I accept the sunshine and warmth I must also accept the thunder and lightning.

· When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.

· Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.

· What is poetry? An extension of vision - and music is an extension of hearing.

· The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

· The real in us is silent; the acquired is talkative.

· Trust in dreams, for in them is the hidden gate to eternity.

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· Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

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