Kahlil Gibran Short Quotes

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Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond.

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If it were not for guests all houses would be graves.

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Perhaps the sea's definition of a shell is the pearl.

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A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.

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

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A pearl is a temple built by pain around a grain of sand.

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You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

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Life without Love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.

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Only those return to Eternity Who on earth seek out Eternity.

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Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.

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For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man.

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You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.

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For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

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Why dispute what we shall be, when we know not even what we are.

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There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

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Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

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

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

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

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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Philosophy's work is finding the shortest path between two points.

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

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Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

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He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.

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Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end.

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Let ignorance reproduce itself until it is weary of its own offspring.

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All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

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

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To love life through labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.

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For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether?

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