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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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Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?

Civilization, Forms, Life, Men, Spiritual

There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.

Joy, Pain, Space, Spiritual, Virtue

To know the pain of too much tenderness

Know, Pain, Tenderness, Too Much, Valentines Day

If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet if I extend a hand which is full and yet find no one to receive it, then that is hopelessness.

Disappointment, Foolishness, Full, Hands, Hopelessness

For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.

Breath, Hand, Hands, Life Is, Wind

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.

Passion, Reason, Soul, Wage, War

They tell me: If you see a slave sleeping, do not wake him lest he be dreaming of freedom. I tell them: If you see a slave sleeping, wake him and explain to him freedom.

Dream, Explain, Freedom, See, Sleep, Tell

Out of my deeper heart a bird rose and flew skywards. Higher and higher did it rise, yet larger and larger did it grow. At first it was but like a swallow, then a lark, then an eagle, then as vast as a spring cloud, and then it filled the starry heavens. Out of my heart a bird flew skywards. And it waxed larger as it flew. Yet it left not my heart.

Cloud, Clouds, Heart, Rose, Spring, Waxed

He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.

Art, Conduct, Defines, Imprisons, Philosophy, Song

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

Hardest, Inspirational, Shells, Strange

Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.

Enthusiasm, Grass, Volcano, Volcanoes

Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Amazing Love, Course, Directs, Finding Love, Love, Weddings And Love

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

Fear, Grandfather, Humble, Jesus, Soul

When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

Absence, Climber, Friendship, Grieving, Hiking, Plain

The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. But it is night that raises them to the stars.

Light, Night, Stars, Teaches

Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast It shall not be a glistening film that covers a wound, but an eyelid that guards the eye.

Anchors, Eye, Film, Guards, House

Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On greater pirates we bestow. To steal a flower we call mean. To rob a field is chivalry; Who kills the body he must die, Who kills the spirit he goes free.

Field, Flower, Full, Mean, Respect, Steal

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Becomes, Grave, Laughing, Seek, Selfish, Wisdom

The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.

Democracy, Feels, Guilty, Half, Misdeeds

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. . . When you are joyous look deep into your heart and you will find that it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

Carves, Given, Heart, Inspirational Love, Joyous, Wisdom

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