Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran

"For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart."
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"For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart."
Kahlil Gibran
"Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks."
Kahlil Gibran
"Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful."
Kahlil Gibran
"Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow."
Kahlil Gibran
"Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness."
Kahlil Gibran
"But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall direct your course? What man's law shall bind you if you break your yoke but upon no man's prison door? What laws shall you fear if you dance but stumble against no man's iron chains? And who is he that shall bring you to judgment if you tear off your garment yet leave it in no man's path? People of Orphalese, 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
"And my heart bled within me; for you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, and when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal and a fullfilment. you should be free indeed when your days are not without care nor your nights without a word and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked unbound."
Kahlil Gibran
"Forgetfulness is a form of freedom."
Kahlil Gibran
"And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught."
Kahlil Gibran
"Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain."
Kahlil Gibran
"Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond."
Kahlil Gibran
"And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth."
Kahlil Gibran
"I love you, my brother, whoever you are - whether you worship in a church, kneel in your temple, or pray in your mosque. You and I are children of one faith, for the diverse paths of religion are fingers of the loving hand of the one supreme being, a hand extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, eager to receive all."
Kahlil Gibran
"Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all."
Kahlil Gibran
"One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's."
Kahlil Gibran
"Your daily life is your temple and your religion."
Kahlil Gibran
"Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof."
Kahlil Gibran
"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking."
Kahlil Gibran
"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."
Kahlil Gibran
"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."
Kahlil Gibran
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