Khalil Gibran Zitate auf Englisch

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They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

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The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

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Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

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If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

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Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

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You have your ideology and I have mine.

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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

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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.

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If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

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Your friend is your needs answered.

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Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

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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.

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Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

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You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

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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.

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Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

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Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert.

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

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Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

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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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Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

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And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

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All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

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When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

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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.

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The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

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Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

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The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

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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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There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

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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.

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