:echo: Kahlil Gibran:Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. Kahlil Gibran:A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? Kahlil Gibran:A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. Kahlil Gibran:An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind. Kahlil Gibran:Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. Kahlil Gibran:Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. Kahlil Gibran:For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. Kahlil Gibran:Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. Kahlil Gibran:Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. Kahlil Gibran: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. Kahlil Gibran:Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. Kahlil Gibran:If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. Kahlil Gibran:Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms. :print:quotelist :remove:11 :print:quotelist :print:heaplist :remove:10 :print:quotelist :print:heaplist Kahlil Gibran:Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. Kahlil Gibran:Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. Kahlil Gibran:Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' Kahlil Gibran:The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom. Kahlil Gibran:The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. Kahlil Gibran:We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. Kahlil Gibran:When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. :remove:16 :print:quotelist :print:heaplist :remove:3 :print:quotelist :print:heaplist Kahlil Gibran:When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies. Kahlil Gibran:When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison? Kahlil Gibran:Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills? 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. :print:quotelist :print:heaplist :print:data:1000