Khalil Gibran Quotes
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do. Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers. I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end. I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. 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. I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires. I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. 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. If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember. If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were. If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom? 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. Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds. 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. Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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