Khalil Gibran Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

Zitat des Tages von Khalil Gibran:

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

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

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

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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

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Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

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Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

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But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. 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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If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

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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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Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot 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 those who work with joy.

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Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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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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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.

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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

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Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

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All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

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

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Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

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Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

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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?

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The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

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Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

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Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

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What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

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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. Forever.

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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

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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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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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