#be

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#alms #better #cannot #distaste #gate

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#eternity #gazing #itself #mirror

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. ↗

— Andre Gide

#doubt #find #seeking #those #truth

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#characteristics #completely #incumbent #know #knowledge

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#behold #being #end #eternity #exist

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#choose #experience #joys #long #our

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#being #embrace #every #extends #shall

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#body #liberty #life #like #spirit

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#advanced #been #bewilderment #changed #exhilaration