Wonderful insights of Kahlil Gibran — a thread:
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“You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.”
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“If it were not for our conception of weights and measures we would stand in awe of the firefly as we do before the sun.”
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“The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.”
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“There is neither religion nor science beyond beauty.”
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“The real in us is silent; the acquired is talkative.”
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“Inspiration will always sing; inspiration will never explain.”
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“I said to Life, ‘I would hear Death speak.’
And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, ‘You hear him now.’”
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“They say to me, ‘Should you know yourself you would know all men.’
And I say, ‘Only when I seek all men shall I know myself.’”
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“Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.”
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“We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.”
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“Even the masks of life are masks of deeper mystery.”
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“Said a skunk to a tube-rose, ‘See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep.’
Said the tube-rose to the skunk, ‘Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!’”
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“Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.”
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“Your saying to me, ‘I do not understand you,’ is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve.”
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“It is wiser for the lame not to break his crutches upon the head of his enemy.”
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“The tribune of humanity is in its silent heart, never its talkative mind.”
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“They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold;
And I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.”
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“The truly free man is he who bears the load of the bond slave patiently.”
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“We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.
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“What if trouble should be a new window in the Eastern wall of your house?”
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“When you sing, the hungry hears you with his stomach.”
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