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Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
Written by Khalil Gibran
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Written by Khalil Gibran
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Written by Khalil Gibran
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Written by Khalil Gibran
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Written by Khalil Gibran
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Written by Khalil Gibran
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Written by Khalil Gibran
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
Written by Khalil Gibran
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
Written by Khalil Gibran
They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
Written by Khalil Gibran
What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
Written by Khalil Gibran
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.
Written by Khalil Gibran
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Written by Khalil Gibran
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Written by Khalil Gibran
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
Written by Khalil Gibran
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
Written by Khalil Gibran
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Written by Khalil Gibran
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
Written by Khalil Gibran
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
Written by Khalil Gibran
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
Written by Khalil Gibran
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Written by Khalil Gibran
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
Written by Khalil Gibran
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
Written by Khalil Gibran
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Written by Khalil Gibran
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Written by Khalil Gibran
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
Written by Khalil Gibran
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Written by Khalil Gibran
If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
Written by Khalil Gibran
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
Written by Khalil Gibran
I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
Written by Khalil Gibran

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