Spiritual Sayings of Kahlil Gibran
 
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When the earth exhales it gives birth to us. When it inhales death is our lot.
That which we call intelligence in the mind of some people is but a local inflammation.
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the mainfestation of nature agree to find new shapes.
Complusion is a mirror in which he who looks for long will see his inner self endeavoring to commit suicide.
That which you think is ugly is but the treachery of the outer directed at the inner self.
We are all practical in our own interest and idealists when it concerns others.
I pity him whose lips and tongue writhe with words of praise while his hand is outstretched in beggary.
He is virtuous who does not acquit himself of the people's faults.
To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life.
History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.
Evil is an unfit creature, laggard in obeying the law of continuity of fitness.
Why do some people scoop from your sea and boast of their rivulet?
He is free who carries the slave's burden with patience.
Beauty in the heart that longs for it is more sublime than in the eyes of him who see it.
Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.
The necessity for explanation is a sign of weakness in the text.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Humanity is divinity divided without and united within.
The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.
Prosperity comes throught two things: exploitation of the earth and distribution of its produce.
The just is close to the people's hearts, but the meciful is close to the heart of God.
Proverty is a temporary fault, but excessive wealth is a lasting ailment.
Remembrance is a tripping stone in the path of Hope.
Our worst fault is the preoccupation with the faults of others.
I never speak without error, for my thoughts come from the world of abstraction and my statements from the world of reference.
Poetry is a flash of lightening; it becomes mere composition when it is an arrangement of words.
No one believes the sincere except the honest.
The most useful among the people is he who is distant from the people.
Your self consists of two selves; one imagines that he knows himself and the other that the people know him.
Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.
Nursing a patient is a sort of embalming.
If existence had not been better than non-existence, there would have been no being.
I shall cast my jewels to the pigs so that they may swallow them and die either of gluttony or indigestion.
Can one sing whose mouth is full of filth?
When affection withers, it intellectualizes.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
He who stares at the small and near images will have difficulty in seeing and distinguishing those that are great and remote.
We are all warriors in the battle of Life, but some lead and others follow.
Souls are fires whose ashes are the bodies.
He who conceals his intention behind flowery words of praise is like a woman who seeks to hide her ugliness behind cosmetics.
If I knew the cause of my ignorance, I would be a sage.
The butterfly will continue to hover over the field and the dewdrops will still glitter upon the grass when the pyramids of Egypt are levelled and the skyscrapers of New York are no more.
Trading is thieving unless it is barter.
 
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