"For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance."
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Kahlil Gibran
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Quotes by Kahlil Gibran
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."
"Der Lehrer [...] gibt nicht von seiner Weisheit, sondern eher von seinem Glauben und seiner Liebe."
"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."
"Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood."
"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."
"Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness."
"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 children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... 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."
"Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all."
"No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone."
"Your daily life is your temple and your religion."
"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."
"Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking."
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
"I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy."
"Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof."
"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."
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy"
"Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness."