Spiritual Sayings of Kahlil Gibran
 
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The best of men is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
The pain that accompanies love, invention, and responsibility also gives delight.
He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it.
The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away.
They say if one understands himself, he understands all people. But I say to you, when one loves people, he learns something about himself.
No one has prevented me from doing something who is not himself interested in it.
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.
When man invents a machine, he runs it; then the machine begin to run him, and he becomes the slave of his slave.
The virtue of some of the rich is that they teach us to despise wealth.
Civilization commenced when man first dug the earth and sowed seeds.
Religion began when man discerned the sun's compassion on the seeds which he sowed in the earth.
Art began when man glorified the sun with a hymn of gratitude.
Philosophy began whe man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.
Man's value is in the few things he creates and not in the many possessions he amasses.
There is no true wealth beyond a man's need.
Every nation is responsible for each act of its individuals.
Love knows not its depth till the hour of separation.
Faith percieves Truth sooner than Experience can.
Inhibitions and religious prohibitions do more harm than anarchy.
The nets of the law are devised to catch small criminals only.
Feigned modesty is imprudence adorned.
Courage, which is the sixth sense, finds the shortest way to triumph.
Chastity of the body may be miserliness of the spirit.
Keep me safe, Lord, from the tongue of the viper, and of him who fails to obtain the fame he craves.
I never met a conceited man whom I did not find inwardly embarrassed.
We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.
Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts.
Our sorrow over the dead may be a sort of jealousy.
The light of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, still reach us with the radiations of their personality.
The sultan of sultans is he who has gained the love of the pauper.
There is no convenience in our present-day civilization that does not cause discomfort.
Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.
We demand freedom of speech an freedom of press, although we have nothing to say and nothing worth printing.
Strength and tolerance are partners.
Love and emptiness in us are like the sea's ebb and flow.
Poverty hides itself in thought before it surrenders to purses.
Man merely discovers; he never can and never will invent.
Philosophy's work is finding the shortest path between two points.
Would it not be more economical for the government to build asylums for the sane instead of the demented?
The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.
Even the laws of Life obey Life's laws.
He is most worthy of praise from whom the people unjustly withhold it.
The truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.
Most men with delicate feelings hasten to hurt your feelings lest you precede them and hurt theirs.
 
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