Kahlil Gibran

Quote: Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse. [Kahlil Gibran]

Quote: Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love. [Kahlil Gibran]

Quote: You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. [Kahlil Gibran]

Quote: The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain. [Kahlil Gibran]

Quote: To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do. [Kahlil Gibran]

Quote: Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. [Kahlil Gibran]

Quote: Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. [Kahlil Gibran]

Quote: You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing? [Kahlil Gibran]

Quote: Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking. [Kahlil Gibran]

Quote: An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper. [Kahlil Gibran]

Quote: If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember. [Kahlil Gibran]

Quote: You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. [Kahlil Gibran]

Quote: Your friend is your needs answered. [Kahlil Gibran]

Quote: Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. [Kahlil Gibran]

Quote: Let your best be for your friend... [Kahlil Gibran]

Quote: Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. [Kahlil Gibran]

Quote: Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. [Kahlil Gibran]

Quote: In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. [Kahlil Gibran]

Quote: Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. [Kahlil Gibran]

Quote: The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities. [Kahlil Gibran]

Quote: Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. [Kahlil Gibran]

Quote: Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. [Kahlil Gibran]

Quote: I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires. [Kahlil Gibran]

Quote: Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions. [Kahlil Gibran]

Quote: Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. [Kahlil Gibran]

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