This sentence first came from Gibran's poem "The Prophet".

The original sentence is as follows: We already walked too far, down to we had forgotten why embarked.

Translation: We already walked too far, down to we had forgotten why embarked.

Later, the author Xu Hong published a book under this name "Don't forget why you started because you have gone too far", which was published by Renmin University of China Press in 2013.

Extended information:

"The Prophet" has always been regarded as the pinnacle of Gibran's life. Since its publication, it has been praised endlessly, and it has been hailed as a "little Bible" and "a gift from the East". The best gift to the West" and so on.

Gibran became famous because of this book and was known and paid attention to by the world. This book includes a number of prose and poetry collections such as "The Prophet", "The Prophet's Garden", and "The Forerunner", discussing the sources of love, marriage, giving, joys and sorrows, freedom, time, good and evil, beauty, death, etc. The question carries Gibran's most profound and mature thoughts, and the language in the prose poem is so beautiful that the "Chicago Evening Post" said:

"The truth is here, with Lebanese beauty, music and truth expressed in idealism.

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