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Faith
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Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
-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. Forever.
-Kahlil Gibran, "The Voice of the Poet"
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What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
-Kahlil Gibran, "The Visit of Wisdom"
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Forgiveness
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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
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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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Friends
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Your friend is your needs answered.
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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
-Kahlil Gibran
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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
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Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
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Futility
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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
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Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
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Generosity
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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For this I bless you most: You give much and know not that you give at all.
-Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet - The Farewell
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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.
-Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
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Goodness
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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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Greatness & Great Things
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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.
-Kahlil Gibran
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Growth
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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.
-Kahlil Gibran
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Guilt
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That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.
-Kahlil Gibran, The Voice of the Master, trans. Anthony R. Ferris
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Humility
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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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Ignorance & Stupidity
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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.
-Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"
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Kindness
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Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.
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Knowledge
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Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
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Books by and about Kahlil Gibran