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01c. 1907 AD

Je tiefer sich das Leid in euer Sein eingräbt, desto mehr Freude könnt ihr fassen.

Kahlil Gibran / quote

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02c. 1907 AD

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Kahlil Gibran / quote

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03c. 1907 AD

Behind the veil of each night, there is a smiling dawn.

Kahlil Gibran / quote

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04c. 1907 AD

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

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05c. 1907 AD

I am forever walking upon these shores,Betwixt the sand and the foam,The high tide will erase my food prints,And the wind will blow away the foam,But the sea and the shore will remain forever.

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06c. 1907 AD

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and melt into the sun?

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07c. 1907 AD

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.

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08c. 1907 AD

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?Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.And when you have reached the mountaintop,then you shall begin to climb.And when the earth shal claim your limbs,then shall you truly dance.

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09c. 1907 AD

Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”But I say unto you, they are inseparable.Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

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10c. 1907 AD

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

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11c. 1907 AD

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

Kahlil Gibran / quote

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12c. 1907 AD

When you part from your friend, you grieve not;For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, asthe mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

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13c. 1907 AD

We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.

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14c. 1907 AD

You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link.This is but half the truth.You are also as strong as your strongest link.To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of the oceanby the frailty of its foam.To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.

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15c. 1907 AD

Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas.For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing;And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

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16c. 1907 AD

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts;And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime.And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.

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17c. 1907 AD

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Kahlil Gibran / quote

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18c. 1907 AD

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Kahlil Gibran / quote

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19c. 1907 AD

You are my brother and I love you. I love you worshipping in your church, kneeling in your temple, and praying in your mosque. You and I and all are children of one religion, for the varied paths of religion are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being, extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, anxious to receive all.

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20c. 1907 AD

I came here to be for all and with all,and what I do today in my solitudewill be echoed tomorrow by the multitude.What I say now with one heartwill be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts...

Kahlil Gibran / quote

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21c. 1907 AD

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

Kahlil Gibran / quote

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22c. 1907 AD

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

Kahlil Gibran / quote

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23c. 1907 AD

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.

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24c. 1907 AD

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

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