Excerpts from Kahlil Gibran's classic quotations

A person has two me, one is awake in the dark, and the other is asleep in the light.

——Kahlil Gibran

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Faith is the oasis in the heart, which can never be reached by the camels of thought.

——Kahlil Gibran

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If one day: you no longer look for love, just love; no longer desire success, just do it; you don’t If you continue to pursue empty growth, you are just beginning to cultivate your own temperament; your life has truly begun.

——Kahlil Gibran

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The meaning of life lies in the mutual illumination between people.

——Kahlil Gibran

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Half of my words are meaningless; but I say them so that the other half can reach you.

——Kahlil Gibran

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Thoughts are like birds in the sky. In the cage of language, they may spread their wings, but they cannot fly.

——Kahlil Gibran

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Trees are poems written by the earth on the sky. We cut them down to make paper to record our ignorance and cowardice on them.

——Kahlil Gibran

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Friendship without sustenance is not a true friendship, but a net cast into the ocean of life. In the end, nothing will be gained. .

——Kahlil Gibran

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