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Khalil Gibran (/dʒɪˈbrɑːn/; sometimes spelled Kahlil;[a] full Arabic name Gibran Khalil Gibran (Arabic: جبران خليل جبران‎ / ALA-LC: Jubrān Khalīl Jubrān or Jibrān Khalīl Jibrān) (January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist.

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And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.

Disclosure, Forth, Mystery, Net, Purpose, Spirit

There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.

Man, Men, Philosophy, Soul

When you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, And what is it to work with love? It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, even as if your beloved were to wear that cloth. It is to build a house with affection, even as if your beloved were to dwell in that house. It is to sow seeds with tenderness and reap the harvest with joy, even as if your beloved were to eat the fruit. It is to charge all things you fashion with a breath of your own spirit. Work is love made visible

Dream, Fashion, Heart, Love, Things

You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving. " The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.

Flocks, Giving, May, Pasture, Tree, Trees

Love is trembling happiness.

Happiness, Happy, Love, Trembling

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.

Happiness, Joy, Looked, See, Sorrow

Those to whom worshiping is a window, to open but also to shut, have not yet visited the house of their souls whose windows are open from dawn to dawn.

Dawn, House, Shut, Soul, Windows

Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another ruler with trumpetings again. Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strong men are yet in the cradle. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.

Art, Strong, Farewell, Juggler, Patching, Dumb

God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.

Lips, Religion, Save, Science, Utters

Love is timeless. . . . Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.

Beloved, Death, Doe, Love Is, Separate, Sympathy

Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing. Yet 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.

Aware, Dream, Memories, Time, Timelessness, Yesterday

All work is empty save when there is love.

Empty, Love, Motivational, Success, Work

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.

Half, Heart, Peace, Talking, Thinking

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Achieved, Heart, Inspirational, Life, Look, Wisdom

Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through me? A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence?

Found, Hands, Harp, Listening, Silence, Treasure

For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

Cage, Communication, Space, Thought, Unfold, Wings

Much of your pain is self-chosen.

Pain, Adversity, Self

He that tries to seize an opportunity after it has passed him by is like one who sees it approach but will not go to meet it.

Approach, Opportunity, Sees, Tries, Trying

Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.

Attracts, Beauty, Give, Giving, Soul, Your Soul

Many are the places of worship, but few indeed are those who worship in Spirit and in truth.

Places, Spirit, Truth, Worship

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