"Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood."
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Kahlil Gibran
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Quotes by Kahlil 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."
"Behind the veil of each night, there is a smiling dawn."
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
"Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all."
"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."
"One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's."
"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were."
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."
"Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness."
"Der Lehrer [...] gibt nicht von seiner Weisheit, sondern eher von seinem Glauben und seiner Liebe."
"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."
"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."
"And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth."
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
"Work is love made visible. And if you can't 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 the people who work with joy"
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."
"Niemand kann euch etwas eröffnen, das nicht schon im Dämmern eures Wissens schlummert."
"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking."
"One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life."