Some of favorite quotes by Kahlil Gibran.
“I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. ”
“When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.”
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
“It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.”
“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. ”
“Yesterday is but today’s memory, tomorrow is today’s dream.”
“Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.”
“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need”
“Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky. We fell them down and turn them into paper, that we may record our emptiness.”
“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.”
“Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be. ”
“Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.”
“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.”
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ”
“The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host, and then a master. “
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