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You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
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poetry
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Kahlil Gibran |
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When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height an..
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marriage
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Kahlil Gibran |
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bf3baed
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I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.
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madness
safety
madman
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Kahlil Gibran |
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Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. 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 thir souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be l..
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Kahlil Gibran |
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Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater." But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed."
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sorrow
poetry
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Kahlil Gibran |
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47d104c
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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
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poetry
giving
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Kahlil Gibran |
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a74a595
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The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
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kindness
deeds
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Kahlil Gibran |
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d968802
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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
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poetry
eternity
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Kahlil Gibran |
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868d775
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The Reality of The Other Person Lies Not In What He Reveals To You, But What He Cannot Reveal To You
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inspirational
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Kahlil Gibran |
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458395c
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You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.
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Kahlil Gibran |
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And a woman spoke, saying, "Tell us of Pain." And he said: Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy; And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always acc..
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Kahlil Gibran |
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b1295aa
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Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.
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solitude
sorrow
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Kahlil Gibran |
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811401c
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To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
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Kahlil Gibran |
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But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;
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joy
love
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Kahlil Gibran |
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fd120d6
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The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.
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reality
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Kahlil Gibran |
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4bcaddf
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If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
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Kahlil Gibran |
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We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.
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travel
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Kahlil Gibran |
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b84485c
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You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of the ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.
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poetry
strength
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Kahlil Gibran |
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81c0904
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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
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Kahlil Gibran |
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Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.
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love
forgiveness
pride
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Kahlil Gibran |
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3beb4f0
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When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.
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feeling
intuition
knowledge
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Kahlil Gibrán |
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Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
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sadness
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Kahlil Gibran |
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51eb574
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Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals."
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poetry
truth
growth
soul
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Kahlil Gibran |
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6052b97
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The deeper that sorrow carves into your being,the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
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sorrow
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Kahlil Gibran |
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3d94d30
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For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
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Kahlil Gibran |
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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself..
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inspirational
children
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Kahlil Gibran |
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09901e5
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When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And When his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And When he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden... But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out ..
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poetry
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Kahlil Gibran |
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cbc8d24
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Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave and eats a bread it does not harvest. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity a nation that despises a passion in its dream, yet submits in its awakening. Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among ..
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spirituality
religion
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Kahlil Gibran |
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925fdae
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love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
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marriage
relationships
love
quiver
share
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Kahlil Gibran |
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4e44ece
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Seven times I have despised my soul: The first time when I saw her being meek that she might attain height. The second time when I saw her limping before the crippled. The third time when she was given to choose between the hard and the easy, and she chose the easy. The fourth time when she committed a wrong, and comforted herself that others also commit wrong. The fifth time when she forbode for weakness, and attributed her patience to str..
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Kahlil Gibran |
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5d9a5c9
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When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
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Kahlil Gibran |
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b3402e0
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And God said "Love Your Enemy," and I obeyed him and loved myself."
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Kahlil Gibran |
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Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing; And let it direct your passion with r..
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passion
poetry
reason
soul
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Kahlil Gibran |
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f525161
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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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rebellion
love
truth
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Kahlil Gibran |
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2704279
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Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.
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life
indifference
desire
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Kahlil Gibran |
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7619367
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Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
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inspirational
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Kahlil Gibran |
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261a559
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Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.
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Kahlil Gibran |
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418f069
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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
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liberty
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Kahlil Gibran |
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3279856
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Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.
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Kahlil Gibran |
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438ed68
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Oftentimes we call Life bitter names, but only when we ourselves are bitter and dark. And we deem her empty and unprofitable, but only when the soul goes wandering in desolate places, and the heart is drunken with overmindfulness of self. Life is deep and high and distant; and though only your vast vision can reach even her feet, yet she is near; and though only the breath of your breath reaches her heart, the shadow of your shadow crosses ..
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light
darkness
life
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Kahlil Gibran |
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fa3c554
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Modern civilization has made woman a little wiser, but it has increased her suffering because of man's covetousness. The woman of yesterday was a happy wife, but the woman of today is a miserable mistress. In the past she walked blindly in the light, but now she walks open-eyed in the dark. She was beautiful in her ignorance, virtuous in her simplicity, and strong in her weakness. Today she has become ugly in her ingenuity, superficial and ..
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Kahlil Gibran |
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66fa8d6
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To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures
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Kahlil Gibran |
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15f12ab
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You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore...But let there be spaces in your togetherness...Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not of the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alo..
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independence
love
inspirational
self-reliance
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Kahlil Gibran |
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febda95
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Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.
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Kahlil Gibran |