Kahlil Gibran

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"In the depths of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond; and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity."

Kahlil Gibran

"The reality of the other lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather what he does not say."

Kahlil Gibran

"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."

Kahlil Gibran

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."

Kahlil Gibran

"Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give. It is then generosity on their part."

Kahlil Gibran

"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; Yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."

Kahlil Gibran

"As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease."

Kahlil Gibran

"And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth. It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house. It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit. It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit, And to know that all the blessed dead are standing about you and watching."

Kahlil Gibran

"Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream."

Kahlil Gibran

"Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream."

Kahlil Gibran

"The reality of the other lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather what he does not say."

Kahlil Gibran

"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself...you may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you."

Kahlil Gibran

"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."

Kahlil Gibran

"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."

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"In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans."

Kahlil Gibran

"Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving."

Kahlil Gibran

"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."

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

"When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life."

Kahlil Gibran

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility; never an opportunity."

Kahlil Gibran

"You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?"

Kahlil Gibran

"Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow."

Kahlil Gibran

"No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver."

Kahlil Gibran

"Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy, you may find in them a harness and a drain. Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your body and less of your raiment."

Kahlil Gibran

"Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights."

Kahlil Gibran