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Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran

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Working with love is building a house with care, as if your beloved were going to live in that house.

Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran

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Some listen with their ears, some with their stomach, some with their wallet, and some don't listen at all.

Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran

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I experienced a second birth when my soul and my body loved each other and got married.

Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran

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The nightingale refuses to nest in the cage, so that slavery is not the destiny of its offspring.

Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran

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And in my madness, I found the freedom and security that comes from not being understood, for those who understand us enslave a part of us.

Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran

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To love life through work is to become intimate with the deepest secret of life.

Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran

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The one who only uses their morality as if it were their best clothing would be better off naked.

Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran

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It is life that gives to life, while you, who consider yourselves donors, are nothing more than witnesses.

Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran

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Love only gives of itself and receives nothing but from itself. Love does not possess, and does not want to be possessed. Because love is sufficient unto love.

Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran

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God does not listen to your words, except when He himself speaks them through your lips.

Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran

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If someone insults you, you can forget it; if you insult, you will never forget.

Khalil Gibran

Khalil Gibran

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The gifts that come from justice are superior to those that originate from charity.