QUOTATIONS by Khalil Gibran..

· Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
· Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
· A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free.
· Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
· Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
· Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
· The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
· You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.
· Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
· We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.
· It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.
· He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.
· Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
· What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think
· By losing your goal, you have lost your way.
· There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
· All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
· Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
· If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
· Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
· The highest virtue here may be the least in another world.
· Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.
· We are expression of earth, and of life - not separate individuals only.
· Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
· The envious praises me unknowingly.

· And think not you can guide the course of love. For love, if it finds you worthy, shall guide your course.
· Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
· If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
· To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
· Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.
· What difference does it make, whether you live in a big city or in a community of homes ? The real life is within.
· Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
· If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
· Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
· How shall my heart be unsealed unless it be broken.
· Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
· Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
· A true hermit goes to the wilderness to find - not to lose himself.
· Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.
· Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
· Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.
· In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
· Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.
· Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
· It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
· Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.
· Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
· If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
· One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night .
· We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
· The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
· Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
· In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.

· In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.
· Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.
· Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
· You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
· Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
· You are blind and I am deaf and dumb, so let us touch hands and understand.
· Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
· Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.
· Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.
· Knowledge is life with wings.
· If I accept the sunshine and warmth I must also accept the thunder and lightning.
· When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
· Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.
· What is poetry? An extension of vision - and music is an extension of hearing.
· The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
· The real in us is silent; the acquired is talkative.
· Trust in dreams, for in them is the hidden gate to eternity.

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Every line here needs serious contemplation.......
these are words of a prophet..