Tag: Kahlil Gibran

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills

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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot 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 those who work with joy.

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Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

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Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

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Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.

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You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

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You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.

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You progress not through improving what has been done, but reaching toward what has yet to be done.

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