I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized,
than lord among those without dreams and desires.
--Kahlil Gibran
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
--Kahlil Gibran
It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.
--Kahlil Gibran
Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.
--Kahlil Gibran
One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night
--Kahlil Gibran
Paradise is there, behind that door, in the next room; but I have lost the key.
Perhaps I have only mislaid it.
--Kahlil Gibran
The envious praises me unknowingly.
--Kahlil Gibran
The highest virtue here may be the least in another world.
--Kahlil Gibran
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
--Kahlil Gibran
Trust in dreams, for in them is the hidden gate to eternity.
--Kahill Gibran
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of
Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
--Kahlil Gibran
Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.
--Kahlil Gibran
I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her
voice a little higher and said, You hear him now.
--Kahlil Gibran
Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.
--Kahlil Gibran
Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
--Kahlil Gibran
For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?
And when the Earth has claimed our limbs, Then we shall truly dance.
--Kahlil Gibran
Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.
--Kahlil Gibran
When you reach the end of what you should know,
you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.
--Kahlil Gibran
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 on passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
--Kahlil Gibran
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking
--Kahlil Gibran
And think not you can guide the course of love.
For love, if it finds you worthy, shall guide your course.
--Kahlil Gibran
Your neighbor is your other self dwelling behind a wall. In understanding all walls shall fall down
--Kahlil Gibran
Friendship is always a sweet responsibilty, never an oppourtunity.
--Kahil Gibran
the silence that guards the tomb does not reveal God's secret in the obscurity
of the coffin, and the rustling of the branches whose roots suck the body's elements
do not tell the mysteries of the grave, by the agonized sighs of my heart announce
to the living the drama which love, beauty, and death have performed.
--Kahlil Gibran
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