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Khalil Gibran

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

-Khalil Gibran

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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

-Khalil Gibran

art

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

-Khalil Gibran

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Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

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beauty

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

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beauty

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

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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

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If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

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

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

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I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

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

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

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

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

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faith

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

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faith

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.

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faith

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

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faith

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

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fear

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

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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.

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friendship

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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friendship

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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friendship

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.

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god

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

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god

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

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Love is trembling happiness.

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happiness

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

-Khalil Gibran

happiness

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

-Khalil Gibran

inspirational

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

-Khalil Gibran

knowledge

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

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Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

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knowledge

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

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knowledge

Khalil Gibran

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

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

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

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

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

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

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

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.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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.

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Love is trembling happiness.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

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

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

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