Khalil Gibran Quotes, Life Quotes, Butterfly Quotes

Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.

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He alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.

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The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.

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Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

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The first glance from the eyes of the beloved is like the spirit that moved upon the face of the waters, giving birth to heaven and earth.

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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” “Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving

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Happiness is a myth we seek, If manifested surely irks; Like river speeding to the plain, On its arrival slows and murks. For man is happy only in His aspiration to the heights; When he attains his goal, he cools And longs for other distant flights.

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I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

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The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.

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He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. [for without sorrow how would you know what joy is? Contrast provides peceptive clarity]

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Many are the places of worship, but few indeed are those who worship in Spirit and in truth.

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When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

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There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.

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God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.

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You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

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All work is empty save when there is love.

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In the depths of your hopes and desires, lies your silent knowledge of the beyond, and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

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if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing

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And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.

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I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

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