"When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?"
-Khalil Gibran
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"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.“
-Khalil Gibran
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"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work."
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"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."
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"Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain."
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"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."
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"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself."
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