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Adversity
Engrave this Quote One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
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-Kahlil Gibran
Engrave this Quote 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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Advice
Engrave this Quote When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
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Age
Engrave this Quote Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.
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Ambition
Engrave this Quote 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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-Kahlil Gibran, "The Visit of Wisdom"
Art
Engrave this Quote Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
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-Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"
Attitude
Engrave this Quote Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
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-Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"
Engrave this Quote The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.
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-Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"
Beauty
Engrave this Quote Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
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-Kahlil Gibran
Engrave this Quote Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
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Body, the
Engrave this Quote 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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-Kahlil Gibran, "Beauty"
Charity
Engrave this Quote 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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Children
Engrave this Quote You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. 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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Engrave this Quote You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
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Choice
Engrave this Quote We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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-Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
Contentment
Engrave this Quote Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
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-Kahlil Gibran
Dance, Dancing
Engrave this Quote And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
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Death
Engrave this Quote 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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-Kahlil Gibran, "The Voice of the Poet"
Desires
Engrave this Quote The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
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Engrave this Quote All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
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-Kahlil Gibran, "The Poet of Baalbek"
Difficulty
Engrave this Quote Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
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-Kahlil Gibran, "The Voice of the Poet"
Doubt
Engrave this Quote Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
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Dreams
Engrave this Quote To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
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Drinking
Engrave this Quote 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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-Kahlil Gibran, "My Soul Is Heavy Laden with its Fruits"
Exaggeration
Engrave this Quote An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.
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Faith
Engrave this Quote Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
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Engrave this Quote 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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-Kahlil Gibran, "The Voice of the Poet"
Engrave this Quote What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
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-Kahlil Gibran, "The Visit of Wisdom"
Forgiveness
Engrave this Quote If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
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Freedom
Engrave this Quote You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
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Friends
Engrave this Quote Your friend is your needs answered.
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Engrave this Quote Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
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Engrave this Quote Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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Engrave this Quote In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
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Engrave this Quote Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
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Futility
Engrave this Quote Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love.
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Future, The
Engrave this Quote Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
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Generosity
Engrave this Quote Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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Engrave this Quote For this I bless you most: You give much and know not that you give at all.
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-Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet - The Farewell
Engrave this Quote 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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-Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
Goodness
Engrave this Quote Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse.
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-Kahlil Gibran
Greatness & Great Things
Engrave this Quote The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.
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Growth
Engrave this Quote Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you.
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
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.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you,
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might that His arrows might go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.
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Guilt
Engrave this Quote That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.
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-Kahlil Gibran, The Voice of the Master, trans. Anthony R. Ferris
Humility
Engrave this Quote I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
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-Kahlil Gibran
Ignorance & Stupidity
Engrave this Quote 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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-Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"
Kindness
Engrave this Quote Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.
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Knowledge
Engrave this Quote Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
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Engrave this Quote No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
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Engrave this Quote A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
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Engrave this Quote Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.
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-Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"
Learning
Engrave this Quote I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
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-Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
Legacy
Engrave this Quote Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
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-Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"
Liberty
Engrave this Quote Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
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-Kahlil Gibran, "The Vision"
Love
Engrave this Quote Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
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-Kahlil Gibran, "The Vision"
Engrave this Quote The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.
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Engrave this Quote Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.
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Engrave this Quote It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
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Engrave this Quote Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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Engrave this Quote Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
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Mind, the
Engrave this Quote Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
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Money
Engrave this Quote Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.
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Nature
Engrave this Quote Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
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Pacifism
Engrave this Quote If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
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-Kahlil Gibran, "The Voice of the Poet"
Engrave this Quote 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?
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-Kahlil Gibran, "The Voice of the Poet"
Pain
Engrave this Quote Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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Patriotism
Engrave this Quote What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?
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-Kahlil Gibran, "The Voice of the Poet"
People
Engrave this Quote 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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-Kahlil Gibran, "The Visit of Wisdom"
Perception
Engrave this Quote The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
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-Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"
Engrave this Quote They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
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-Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"
Poetry
Engrave this Quote A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.
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-Kahlil Gibran, "The Poet of Baalbek"
Potential
Engrave this Quote For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?
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Power
Engrave this Quote We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.
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-Kahlil Gibran, "Children of Gods, Scions of Apes"
Progress
Engrave this Quote 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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-Kahlil Gibran, "Children of Gods, Scions of Apes"
Engrave this Quote Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
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-Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"
Reflection
Engrave this Quote 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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-Kahlil Gibran, "The Philosophy of Logic"
Religion
Engrave this Quote 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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-Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"
Engrave this Quote 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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-Kahlil Gibran, "The Voice of the Poet"
Engrave this Quote Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.
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-Kahlil Gibran, "Beauty"
Revolution
Engrave this Quote Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
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-Kahlil Gibran, The Vision
Safety
Engrave this Quote The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
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Secrets
Engrave this Quote If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
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-Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Service
Engrave this Quote Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country?
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-Kahlil Gibran, The New Frontier
Shyness
Engrave this Quote What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
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-Kahlil Gibran, "The Captive King"
Silence
Engrave this Quote Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
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Simplicity
Engrave this Quote The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
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Soul
Engrave this Quote I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
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-Kahlil Gibran, "Anthem of Humanity"
Suffering
Engrave this Quote Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
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Teaching
Engrave this Quote The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.
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Time
Engrave this Quote 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.
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-Kahlil Gibran, "Children of Gods, Scions of Apes"
Truth
Engrave this Quote Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.
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War
Engrave this Quote Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
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-Kahlil Gibran, "The Voice of the Poet"
Wealth
Engrave this Quote Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
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-Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"
Wisdom
Engrave this Quote 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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-Kahlil Gibran, "Between Reality and Fantasy"
Engrave this Quote 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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Work
Engrave this Quote 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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