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Knowledge
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Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.
-Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"
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Learning
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
-Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
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Legacy
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Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
-Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"
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Liberty
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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
-Kahlil Gibran, "The Vision"
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Love
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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
-Kahlil Gibran, "The Vision"
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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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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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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.
-Kahlil Gibran
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Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
-Kahlil Gibran
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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
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Mind, the
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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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Money
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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.
-Kahlil Gibran
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Nature
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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
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If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
-Kahlil Gibran, "The Voice of the Poet"
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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?
-Kahlil Gibran, "The Voice of the Poet"
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Pain
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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Patriotism
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What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?
-Kahlil Gibran, "The Voice of the Poet"
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People
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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.
-Kahlil Gibran, "The Visit of Wisdom"
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Perception
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The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
-Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"
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They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
-Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"
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Poetry
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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.
-Kahlil Gibran, "The Poet of Baalbek"
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Potential
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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
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We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.
-Kahlil Gibran, "Children of Gods, Scions of Apes"
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Progress
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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.
-Kahlil Gibran, "Children of Gods, Scions of Apes"
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Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
-Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"
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Books by and about Kahlil Gibran