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Kahlil Gibran
January 6, 1883 - April 10, 1931
Category: Poet

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

   

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

   

Love is trembling happiness.

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Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

   

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?

   

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

   

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

   

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

   

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

   

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

   

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

   

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

   

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

   

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

   

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

   

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

   

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

   

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

   

Your friend is your needs answered.

   

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.

   

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