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

Khalil Gibran

Knowledge
2

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.

Khalil Gibran

Exaggeration
3

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Khalil Gibran

Dance and Dancing
4

Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Khalil Gibran

Beauty
5

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Khalil Gibran

Beauty
6

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

Khalil Gibran

Doubt
7

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Khalil Gibran

Love
8

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

Khalil Gibran

Faith
9

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?

Khalil Gibran

Potential
10

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Khalil Gibran

Nature
11

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Khalil Gibran

Friends and Friendship
12

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Khalil Gibran

Generosity
13

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

Khalil Gibran

Modesty
14

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

Khalil Gibran

Forgiveness
15

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

Khalil Gibran

Fun
16

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

Khalil Gibran

Friends and Friendship
17

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Khalil Gibran

Love
18

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.

Khalil Gibran

Wisdom
19

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

Khalil Gibran

Friends and Friendship
20

Let your best be for your friend...

Khalil Gibran

Friends and Friendship
21

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.

Khalil Gibran

Futility
22

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.

Khalil Gibran

Love
23

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Khalil Gibran

Love
24

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.

Khalil Gibran

Adversity
25

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Khalil Gibran

Money
26

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Khalil Gibran

Mind
27

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

Khalil Gibran

Knowledge
28

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Khalil Gibran

Adversity
29

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Khalil Gibran

Suffering
30

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Khalil Gibran

Knowledge
31

Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Khalil Gibran

Truth
32

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Khalil Gibran

Age and Aging
33

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.

Khalil Gibran

Kindness
34

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Khalil Gibran

Love
35

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.

Khalil Gibran

Greatness
36

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Khalil Gibran

Comfort
37

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

Khalil Gibran

Simplicity
38

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

Khalil Gibran

Desire
39

The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.

Khalil Gibran

Teachers and Teaching
40

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.

Khalil Gibran

Dream
41

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

Khalil Gibran
42

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.

Khalil Gibran

Deeds and Good Deeds
43

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Khalil Gibran

Advice
44

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Khalil Gibran

Work
45

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.

Khalil Gibran

Contentment
46

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

Khalil Gibran

The future
47

You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

Khalil Gibran

Freedom
48

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Khalil Gibran

Giving
49

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.

Khalil Gibran

Children
50

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Khalil Gibran

Friends and Friendship
51

Your friend is your needs answered.

Khalil Gibran

Friends and Friendship
52

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

Khalil Gibran

Silence
53

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Khalil Gibran

Pain

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

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

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

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

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

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

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

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

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

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

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.

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

Let your best be for your friend...

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.

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.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

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.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

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

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

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.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.

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

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.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.

Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.

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

You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

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.

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.