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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.

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

Kahlil Gibran

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.

Kahlil Gibran

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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