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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.

A Quote By Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran

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Khalil Gibran
Khalil Gibran
Poet and Author of 'The Prophet'
Khalil Gibran, Lebanese-American poet and author of The Prophet, fused East and West in spiritual, lyrical prose.
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Gibran describes love as a powerful, transformative force—often painful, but deeply meaningful. True love requires vulnerability, surrender, and courage.
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
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The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
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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.
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Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
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Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.”
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You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
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If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.
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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.
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Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.
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Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
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