Khalil Gibran Quotes About Prophet
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When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
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The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
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We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.
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For love is sufficient unto love.
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Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
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Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.
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All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.
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Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires.
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Your friend is your needs answered.
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You may strive to be like them but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
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When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
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You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God. But let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
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Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness, for even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves also the bow that is stable.
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You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
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If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
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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.
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We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.
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You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
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And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.
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And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
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love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
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Say not, I have found the path of the soul Say rather, I have met the soul walking upon my path.
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But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
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For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.
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You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.
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He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.
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