Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran Quotations
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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life.
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.
No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.
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.
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt
You give but little when you give of your posessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Love is know the pain of too much tenderness.
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
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.
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 would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Half of what I say is meaningless but I say it so that the other half may reach you.
God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
Faith, is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges
The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion.
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.
He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it.
In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song.
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.
If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
They deem me mad for I will not sell my days for gold; I deem them mad for they think my days have a price.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.
Give your hearts, but not into each other?s keeping,
For only the hand of God can contain your hearts.
For only the hand of God can contain your hearts.
It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Man merely discovers' he never can and never will invent.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.
Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.
What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.
They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
The best of men is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
But you are life and you are the veil.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
But you are life and you are the veil.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.
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?
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?
I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
To be closer to God, be closer to people.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease.
Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love love recompenses the adorers.
I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
Verily, when good is hungry is seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.
Verily, when good is hungry is seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
You progress not through improving what has been done, but reaching toward what has yet to be done.
You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined.
The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.
We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.