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A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#awe-inspiring #clearly #far #far away #friend

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#came #children #daughters #itself #life

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#go #love #never #return #somebody

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

#before #bow #children #cry #does

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#dream #memory #today #tomorrow #yesterday

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#reveal #revealing #secrets #should #them

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#deep #everyday #everyday life #happiness #kindness

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

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#came #consider #gloom #god #grief

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#giving #i #i do #me #more