3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran 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?
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran 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.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
3 December 2020 Khalil Gibran The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
