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A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
Khalil Gibran
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Khalil Gibran
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
Khalil Gibran
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
Khalil Gibran
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
Khalil Gibran
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Khalil Gibran
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Khalil Gibran
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Khalil Gibran
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Khalil Gibran
But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Khalil Gibran
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
Khalil Gibran
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Khalil Gibran
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Khalil Gibran
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Khalil Gibran
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Khalil Gibran
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Khalil Gibran
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Khalil Gibran
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
Khalil Gibran
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Khalil Gibran
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Khalil Gibran
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Khalil Gibran
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
Khalil Gibran
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
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Khalil Gibran
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Khalil Gibran
You have your ideology and I have mine.
Khalil Gibran
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Khalil Gibran
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
Khalil Gibran
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Khalil Gibran
Your friend is your needs answered.
Khalil Gibran
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
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Khalil Gibran
Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
Khalil Gibran
