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Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American poet, painter, and writer.
* He was born in Bcharré, Lebanon, in 1883.
* He moved to the United States with his family when he was 12 years old.
* He studied art at the American University of Beirut and the Académie Julian in Paris.
* He published his first book of poems, The Madman, in 1918.
* His most famous work, The Prophet, was published in 1923.
* The Prophet has been translated into more than 100 languages and has sold over 100 million copies.
* Gibran died in New York City in 1931.
* He is considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.

 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : 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.

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.

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 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

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

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 inspirational quotes - Image for quote : If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.

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Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

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No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.

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When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

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Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

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They say: 'If a man knew himself,he would know all mankind.'I say: 'If a man loved mankind,he would know something of himself.

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I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

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When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

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Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness.

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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.

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Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

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Love one another, but make not a bond of love:Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

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Work is love made visible. And if you can't 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 the people who work with joy

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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

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And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

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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.

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

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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

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The Reality of The Other Person Lies Not In What He Reveals To You, But What He Cannot Reveal To You.Therefore, If You Would Understand Him, Listen Not To What He Says, But Rather To What He Does Not Say.

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Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

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I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

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In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.

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Darkness may hide the treesand the flowers from the eyesbut it cannot hidelove from the soul.

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