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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.


Khalil Gibran

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CECILIA LONDON Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN What shall i say of these save that they too stand in the sunlight, but with their backs to the sun?...
KAHLIL GIBRAN ..i spill into
the kind of silence
only Khalil Gibran would understand.
SANOBER KHAN Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your pass...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Seared with scars and still shine like a star.
M.L. SHANAHAN It seared its way into the souls of New Zealanders in a way nothing else could,
GEOFFREY PALMER Marvel has emerged as one of the strongest, most successful entertainment brands around the globe, w...
BRAD GREY Are they beautiful?
The lines left from suffering,
Scars of emptiness.
TYLER KNOTT GREGSON He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.
The wind and the sun will ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Books are the way to stretch out people's souls, and I won't have children with small souls.
JODI LYNN ANDERSON The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.
SHANNON L. ALDER You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps.
Yet you are not evil when y...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Before I got here, I thought that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it didn't exist, ...
JOHN GREEN Sometimes it's the scars that remind you that you survived. Sometimes the scars tell you that you ha...
ASHLEY D. WALLIS The amount of steel is astounding. The foundation is two and a half feet thick. The scale is amazing...
GARY KELLISON Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls.
JULIA PHILLIPS There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.
JEAN COCTEAU The natural characters in the drama are not supposed to be philosophical, nor are they people with a...
HELENE CIXOUS Sherlock Holmes is a massive figure in people's minds. More massive than a lot of real historical ch...
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MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE These are come of the strongest, most creative teachers in the country.
JOANNE WHEELER Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS Inside this great Universe,you will find many pulsating characters;The rich & the poor,the positive ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known stru...
ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society...
MAYA ANGELOU Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
MARGARET MITCHELL What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting char...
MIKE BIRBIGLIA All day long you sit and sew,
Stitch life down for fear it grow,

Stitch life down fo...
EDITH SITWELL The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of the...
EDWARD HOAGLAND Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them...
EDWARD HOAGLAND If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... The trade-off is they are going to have scars. You are trading scars for body shape.
JEFF KENKEL Well, dude,” said Khalil, “sometimes you just have to get over shit.
THEA HARRISON Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.
CHUCK CLOSE The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
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LARRY COHEN By assembling these pieces of the puzzle, the picture that emerged was the complete opposite of what...
CHARLES LADA Irrational expectations are at the root of most human suffering.
STEFAN MOLYNEUX Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even control...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON The scars that are internal are also the scars that are eternal.
SARA STRAIN 'Anchorman' is my favorite movie of all time and Ron Burgundy is one of my favorite characte...
EVA MENDES I do not want a player who is a perfect man and has a fantastic character. That’s the kind of guy ...
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JAMES A. MURPHY Most of the books that feature supernatural characters blending with the modern world and are usuall...
CHARLAINE HARRIS In general we have confidence in the lab, ... There are some problems with it that have emerged thro...
JAMIE GORELICK Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
F. JOHNSON If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been p...
TREVOR NOAH Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
DAVID THOMAS Water flows because it's willing.
MARTY RUBIN Go with the flow even if there are rapids ahead.
JIM GENOVESE Don't resist life, flow with it.
JIM GENOVESE Life is more like dancing than wrestling if you follow its rhythm.
JIM GENOVESE The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.
MARGARET MITCHELL The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of a...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Some scars don't hurt. Some scars are numb. Some scars rid you of the capacity to feel anything ever...
JOYCE RACHELLE Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.
VANESSA PARADIS You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.
T. SCOTT MCLEOD Most of the students are familiar with the movie and the original musical. They thoroughly studied t...
JEAN BURKHART Paroxysms of pain and twinges of desire leach from universal sources. All human suffering buttons it...
KILROY J. OLDSTER He plants himself right there in front of Craig’s mother and says, “You need to love him. I don�...
DAVID LEVITHAN She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with ...
MARGARET MITCHELL Scott is one of the most talented and respected athletic directors in the nation. With Scott's arriv...
TODD TURNER Shoes are like society. Once in awhile they have to replace the worn out souls.
KATE MCGAHAN We are not bodies with souls, we are souls with bodies.
KEVIN R. BEAN Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE My loves have always been seared with this singing, this singing written by death, the way some land...
HANNAH LILLITH ASSADI Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
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ROBERT MUGABE ...history is filled with fictional people. We have all been fooled into believing in people who are...
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RICKY MAYE Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despi...
KHALIL GIBRAN Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier th...
KHALIL GIBRAN Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recomp...
KHALIL GIBRAN When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which ...
KHALIL GIBRAN They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve...
KHALIL GIBRAN Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing ...
KHALIL GIBRAN Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
KHALIL GIBRAN Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
KHALIL GIBRAN If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have s...
KHALIL GIBRAN The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn...
KHALIL GIBRAN Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
KHALIL GIBRAN When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold ...
KHALIL GIBRAN Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of trib...
KHALIL GIBRAN Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do...
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KHALIL GIBRAN All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
KHALIL GIBRAN Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
KHALIL GIBRAN What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
KHALIL GIBRAN Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
KHALIL GIBRAN If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
KHALIL GIBRAN When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
KHALIL GIBRAN Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger amon...
KHALIL GIBRAN The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
KHALIL GIBRAN You have your ideology and I have mine.
KHALIL GIBRAN What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come ne...
KHALIL GIBRAN Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the fo...
KHALIL GIBRAN Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
KHALIL GIBRAN A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
KHALIL GIBRAN Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
KHALIL GIBRAN Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the peopl...
KHALIL GIBRAN To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what ...
KHALIL GIBRAN Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
KHALIL GIBRAN The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
KHALIL GIBRAN No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your know...
KHALIL GIBRAN Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
KHALIL GIBRAN The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, an...
KHALIL GIBRAN The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
KHALIL GIBRAN I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affect...
KHALIL GIBRAN Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you n...
KHALIL GIBRAN There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
KHALIL GIBRAN The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
KHALIL GIBRAN You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your j...
KHALIL GIBRAN Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
KHALIL GIBRAN Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
KHALIL GIBRAN To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
KHALIL GIBRAN Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
KHALIL GIBRAN Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itsel...
KHALIL GIBRAN Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of y...
KHALIL GIBRAN I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those with...
KHALIL GIBRAN Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the m...
KHALIL GIBRAN Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to...
KHALIL GIBRAN If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always re...
KHALIL GIBRAN I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from those u...
KHALIL GIBRAN When life life does not find a singer to sing her heat, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind...
KHALIL GIBRAN In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of li...
KHALIL GIBRAN When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for...
KHALIL GIBRAN When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given yo...
KHALIL GIBRAN Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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KHALIL GIBRAN Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
KHALIL GIBRAN Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
KHALIL GIBRAN Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
KHALIL GIBRAN Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
KHALIL GIBRAN Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
KHALIL GIBRAN And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
KHALIL GIBRAN I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are...
KHALIL GIBRAN If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the tree...
KHALIL GIBRAN Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path...
KHALIL GIBRAN Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
KHALIL GIBRAN Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveile...
KHALIL GIBRAN For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
KHALIL GIBRAN Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
KHALIL GIBRAN Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
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KHALIL GIBRAN If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall s...
KHALIL GIBRAN But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Lov...
KHALIL GIBRAN All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
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KHALIL GIBRAN If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't...
KHALIL GIBRAN If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
KHALIL GIBRAN Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
KHALIL GIBRAN Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
KHALIL GIBRAN We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
KHALIL GIBRAN Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
KHALIL GIBRAN You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you trul...
KHALIL GIBRAN March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorn...
KHALIL GIBRAN Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
KHALIL GIBRAN Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatne...
KHALIL GIBRAN Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
KHALIL GIBRAN Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
KHALIL GIBRAN Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second...
KHALIL GIBRAN I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my b...
KHALIL GIBRAN A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far m...
KHALIL GIBRAN Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to k...
KHALIL GIBRAN Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
KHALIL GIBRAN Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
KHALIL GIBRAN You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
KHALIL GIBRAN And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your h...
KHALIL GIBRAN Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
KHALIL GIBRAN Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, foll...
KHALIL GIBRAN If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
KHALIL GIBRAN The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads yo...
KHALIL GIBRAN Your friend is your needs answered.
KHALIL GIBRAN Life is weaker than death, and death is weaker than love.
KHALIL GIBRAN Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
KHALIL GIBRAN Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
KHALIL GIBRAN It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the ...
KHALIL GIBRAN You cannot have youth and the knowledge of it at the same time; For youth is too busy living to know...
KHALIL GIBRAN Love which is not always springing is always dying.
KHALIL GIBRAN Your daily life is your temple and your religion. Whenever you enter into it take with you your all.
KHALIL GIBRAN ...beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is ...
KHALIL GIBRAN ...and your body is the harp of your soul, and it is yours to bring forth sweet music or confused so...
KHALIL GIBRAN The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy
KHALIL GIBRAN Rest in reason; move in passion
KHALIL GIBRAN For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?
KHALIL GIBRAN Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
KHALIL GIBRAN Love is trembling happiness.
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KHALIL GIBRAN MUHAMMAD For me, it's a shin thing, ... If I feel good, I want to play the final three games to stay where I ...
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KHALIL GREENE I'm not a big believer in one or two games making a difference in a season. But it was a moment that...
KHALIL GREENE I disliked the Braves quite a bit.
KHALIL GREENE It's frustrating, but it's a part of the game. It's disappointing, but there's not much you can do a...
KHALIL GREENE I was trying to swing the bat with some authority, and not be overly defensive.
KHALIL GREENE I don't expect to be at the top at the end of the year. When I hit home runs, they tend to come in b...
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KHALIL DULAIMI Missed Education is like malnutrition Starve the brain you starve the soul You stop understanding yo...
ABDESSLEM KHALIL Preventing the visits is illegal and prevents the President from having a fair trial.
KHALIL DULAIMI At this point, it feels OK. It doesn't feel great, but it doesn't feel terrible either.
KHALIL GREENE I definitely haven't forgotten that [at-bat]. It was a fastball, down and in. I wasn't really having...
KHALIL GREENE I don't know you and I don't want to know you
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KHALIL SIKANDER She's an awesome player. She gets her teammates involved. She's a shooter and a scorer. She can crea...
KHALIL SIKANDER I've always been optimistic. When things come together and I feel comfortable, I know I can be a pro...
KHALIL GREENE I'm definitely looking to put together a full season. I know what I'm capable of doing. I want to be...
KHALIL GREENE I am like an oyster, rough and wrinkly from the outside but shiny in the inside
ABDESSLEM KHALIL I don't really analyze the win-loss aspect and what-ifs. Ultimately, we're trying to play good baseb...
KHALIL GREENE I think these are the kind of games that you see in the playoffs. And the teams there have an abilit...
KHALIL GREENE I'm not trying to do too much -- just be aggressive and selective at the same time,
KHALIL GREENE I could hit it twice and not hit it out to right-center in our place, ... Here (Denver) it's a defin...
KHALIL GREENE Getting the respect of [my] fellow players is as important as anything to me, ... Acclaim and media ...
KHALIL GREENE There's a lot of capable of players throughout the system,
KHALIL GREENE Simplicity is the highest level of elegance
ABDESSLEM KHALIL I thought I was special until I realised the offer of free rides were not exclusive to one
ABDESSLEM KHALIL Fakeness is a veil, don't waste time getting too close to see through it
ABDESSLEM KHALIL You speak so badly, you make spelling mistakes when you talk
ABDESSLEM KHALIL We have not been duly informed about any certain date for a trial.
KHALIL DULAIMI I think it will be hard to get people to vote until there is some differentiation between the state,...
WAEL KHALIL We have called for the closure of the US embassy and the severance of relations with the Americans b...
FATAHI KHALIL Even if they send pure Muslim or Arab troops we will consider them invaders and will fight them.
FATAHI KHALIL We know the Americans and the British are too scared to send troops to Sudan after what has happened...
FATAHI KHALIL It feels great to be back among my teammates. At this moment we are all geared up to playing our bes...
FAISAL KHALIL After that I will go straight to France and join my team. Honestly, one should not compare the socce...
FAISAL KHALIL There is a clause in my contract to this effect.
FAISAL KHALIL I have been called upon to serve my country and I am willing to do everything in my capacity to achi...
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KAHLIL GIBRAN It is well go give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
KAHLIL GIBRAN To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
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KAHLIL GIBRAN The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regre...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be po...
KAHLIL GIBRAN It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores...
KAHLIL GIBRAN When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his win...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger amon...
KAHLIL GIBRAN I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unk...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Your children are not your children.
They are sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from be...
KAHLIL GIBRAN You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”...
KAHLIL GIBRAN When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold y...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love o...
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KAHLIL GIBRAN Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.
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That...
KAHLIL GIBRAN If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they n...
KAHLIL GIBRAN When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
KAHLIL GIBRAN My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear-a care-woven garment that protects ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and re...
KAHLIL GIBRAN I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you...
KAHLIL GIBRAN In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
KAHLIL GIBRAN For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cea...
KAHLIL GIBRAN They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve...
KAHLIL GIBRAN The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn...
KAHLIL GIBRAN What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?
KAHLIL GIBRAN I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affect...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
KAHLIL GIBRAN I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unk...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
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