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More Quotes by Khalil Gibran
All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand.
Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came to make the human heart a temple, and the soul an altar, and the mind a priest.
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.
A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
The snow and the storm destroy the flower; but its seed they cannot kill.
The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.
When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.
In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a shining dawn.
