Khalil Gibran
Libano
6 Jan 1883 // 10 Apr 1931
Poet
6 Jan 1883 // 10 Apr 1931
Poet
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Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds
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
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed
If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
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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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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