#u

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills? ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#itself #jails #justice #killing #lands

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

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#daily life #enter #into #life #religion

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#follow #hard #hidden #him #his

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

At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know? ↗

— Merle Haggard

#bread #buy #half #i #know

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom? ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#expect #flowers #heart #how #shall

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#pain #shell #understanding #your

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#among #his #honor #land #most