Kahlil Gibran
"“Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave and eats a bread it does not harvest. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity a nation that despises a passion in its dream, yet submits in its awakening. Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpeting, and farewells him with hooting, only to welcome another with trumpeting again. Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strongmen are yet in the cradle. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.”"
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"“Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave and eats a bread it does not harvest. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity a nation that despises a passion in its dream, yet submits in its awakening. Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpeting, and farewells him with hooting, only to welcome another with trumpeting again. Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strongmen are yet in the cradle. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.”"
"تَعِسَتْ أُمَّةٌ مَلْؤُهَا الْعَقَائِدُ وَخَاوِيَةٌ مِنَ الدِّينِ. تَعِسَتْ أُمَّةٌ تَلْبَسُ مَا لَا تَنْسُجُ، وَتَأْكُلُ مَا لَا تَحْصُدُ. تَعِسَتْ أُمَّةٌ تُشِيدُ بِالْجَبَّارِ بَطَلًا، وَتَعُدُّ الْفَاتِحَ الْبَرَّاقَ مُنْعِمًا. تَعِسَتْ أُمَّةٌ تَحْتَقِرُ الشَّغَفَ فِي حُلْمِهَا، ثُمَّ تَسْتَسْلِمُ فِي يَقَظَتِهَا. تَعِسَتْ أُمَّةٌ لَا تَرْفَعُ صَوْتَهَا إِلَّا عِنْدَ سَيْرِهَا فِي جَنَازَةٍ، وَلَا تَفْخَرُ إِلَّا بَيْنَ خَرَائِبِهَا، وَلَا تَتَمَرَّدُ إِلَّا حِينَ تُوضَعُ رَقَبَتُهَا بَيْنَ السَّيْفِ وَالْقَطَّاعَةِ. تَعِسَتْ أُمَّةٌ سِيَاسِيُّهَا ثَعْلَبٌ، وَفَيْلَسُوفُهَا مُشَعْوِذٌ، وَفَنُّهَا فَنُّ التَّرْقِيعِ وَالْمُحَاكَاةِ. تَعِسَتْ أُمَّةٌ تَسْتَقْبِلُ حَاكِمَهَا الْجَدِيدَ بِالْأَبْوَاقِ، وَتُوَدِّعُهُ بِالصَّيْح"
Kahlil Gibran
The Garden of The Prophet
"“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.”"
"اللهم أبعدني عن حكمة لا تدمع، وفلسفة لا تضحك، وعظمة لا تنحني أمام الأطفال."
Kahlil Gibran
Mirrors of the Soul
"“If you reveal your secrets to the wind,you should not blame the wind forrevealing them to the trees.”"
"إذا باحت رياحك بأسرارك، فلا تلم الرياح إن أفشتها للأشجار."
Kahlil Gibran
The Wanderer
"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."
"العمل حبٌّ تجسّد للعيان. وإن لم تستطع أن تعمل بحبٍّ، بل باشمئزازٍ فقط، فالأجدر بك أن تترك عملك وتجلس عند باب الهيكل وتأخذ الصدقات ممن يعملون بفرح."
Kahlil Gibran
"An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper."
"المبالغة حقيقة فقدت صوابها."
Kahlil Gibran
"The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion respect longing patience regret surprise and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love."
"الكيميائي الذي يستطيع أن يستخلص من عناصر قلبه: الشفقة والاحترام والشوق والصبر والندم والدهشة والمغفرة، ثم يمزجها في مركب واحد، هو وحده القادر على خلق تلك الذرة التي تُدعى الحب."
Kahlil Gibran
"The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy."
"أعظم ما في حزن اليوم هو ذكرى بهجة الأمس."
Kahlil Gibran
"No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge."
"لا يستطيع إنسان أن يكشف لك شيئًا إلا ما يكمن بالفعل نصف نائم في فجر معرفتك."
Kahlil Gibran
"In much of your talking thinking is half murdered."
"كثيرٌ من حديثك يقتل الفكر في مهده."
Kahlil Gibran
"The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply."
"البديهي هو ما لا يُرى قط حتى يعبر عنه أحدهم ببساطة."
Kahlil Gibran
"You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance."
"تضرع في ضيقك وحاجتك، فيا ليتك تتضرع أيضًا في غمرة فرحك وأيام رخائك."
Kahlil Gibran
"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."
"تضرع في ضيقك وحاجتك، فيا ليتك تتضرع أيضاً في غمرة فرحك وأيام رخائك."
Kahlil Gibran
"Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today made by past generations was before its appearance a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman."
"كل جمال وعظمة في هذا الوجود إنما هو ثمرة فكرة واحدة أو عاطفة متقدة في جوف الإنسان. وكل ما نراه اليوم من إبداعات الأجيال السالفة، لم يكن قبل ظهوره سوى خاطرٍ في ذهن رجل، أو نبضةٍ في فؤاد امرأة."
Kahlil Gibran
"They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price."
"يرونني مجنونًا لأني لا أبيع أيامي بالذهب، وأراهم مجانين لأنهم يظنون أن لأيامي ثمنًا."
Kahlil Gibran
"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."
"لا تنسَ أن الأرض تبتهج بملامسة قدميك العاريتين، وأن الرياح تتوق للعب بخصلات شعرك."
Kahlil Gibran
"Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving."
"استيقظ عند الفجر بقلبٍ خفّاقٍ، واشكر ليومٍ آخر من الحب."
Kahlil Gibran
"Let there be spaces in your togetherness."
"ليكن بينكما فسحات في اجتماعكما."
Kahlil Gibran
"Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit."
"الحياة بلا حب كشجرة بلا أزهار ولا ثمار."
Kahlil Gibran
"The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master."
"شهوة الراحة، ذلك الدخيل المتسلل الذي يدخل البيت ضيفًا، ثم يصبح ربّه، ثم سيده."
Kahlil Gibran
"If the other person injures you you may forget the injury but if you injure him you will always remember."
"إذا آذاك غيرك، فقد تنسى أذاه. أما إذا آذيته أنت، فلا يبرح أذاك له ذاكرتك أبدًا."
Kahlil Gibran
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