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

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Love Work Better

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

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Positive Trust Hidden

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Today Memory Tomorrow

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Dreamer Without Desires

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.

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Relationship Dance Sea

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Life Tree Love Is

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

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Moving On You Return

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

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Romantic Separation Hour

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

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Embrace Slowly Being

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Doubt Never Speaking

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

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Love Is Will Sufficient

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Progress Will Toward

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.

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Love Joy Better

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

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Hair Feet Long

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Kindness Silence I Am

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

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Life Sea River

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Survival Sweeter Then

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

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Honor People Stranger

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

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Love Poverty Learn

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Work Together Heart

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

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Life Kindness Truth

Love is trembling happiness.

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Love Love Is Trembling

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.

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Friendship Laughter

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.

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Life Children You

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

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Children Living You

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.

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Knowledge God Grief

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.

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Humble Soul Grandfather

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Face Motion Us

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Justice Political Where

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Wisdom Idle Little

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

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Art Silence Imagination

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Man Nothing You

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.

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Mother Self Me

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Beginning Perplexity

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Wisdom Great Pain

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

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Seeds Your Sow

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.

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Motivational Life Path

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

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Path Perfection Blood

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

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Desert Spring Truth Is

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

~ Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran Say Found Rather
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