Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
- Kahlil Gibran - In Art
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If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
- Kahlil Gibran - In Business
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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.
- Kahlil Gibran - In Mortality
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For what is it to die, but to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?
- Kahlil Gibran - In Mortality
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The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
- Kahlil Gibran - In Dreams
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Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
- Kahlil Gibran - In Equality
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Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
- Kahlil Gibran - In Faith
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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
- Kahlil Gibran - In Faith
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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Kahlil Gibran - In Love
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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
- Kahlil Gibran - In Nature
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A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.
- Kahlil Gibran - In Poetry
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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
- Kahlil Gibran - In Poetry
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What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?
- Kahlil Gibran - In Politics
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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
- Kahlil Gibran - In Politics
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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.
- Kahlil Gibran - In Religion
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Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.
- Kahlil Gibran - In Religion
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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.
- Kahlil Gibran - In Religion
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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.
- Kahlil Gibran - In Time
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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
- Kahlil Gibran - In Words to the Wise
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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
- Kahlil Gibran - In Workplace
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