Excerpts of Citations
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Beauty is not in the face; Beauty is a light in the heart.
~Kahlil Gibran
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
~Kahlil Gibran
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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
~Kahlil Gibran
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Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
~Kahlil Gibran
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The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
~Kahlil Gibran
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If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
~Kahlil Gibran
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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
~Kahlil Gibran
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You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
~Kahlil Gibran
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God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.
~Kahlil Gibran
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There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.
~Kahlil Gibran
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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
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Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever
~Kahlil Gibran
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Yes, there is a Nirvana; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
~Kahlil Gibran
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If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth.
~Kahlil Gibran
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A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.
~Kahlil Gibran
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Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining, and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore, let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion!
~Kahlil Gibran