Kahlil Gibran

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"Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.... [A]ccept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields...."	Anti-Religion, Adversity
"They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price."	Money
"The highest virtue here may be least in another world."	Quotations
"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."	Art
"Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers."	Beauty
"Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow."	Anti-God, Attitude
"The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers."	Anti-God, Attitude
"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."	Children
"Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people."	Love, Death
"All that spirits desire, spirits attain."	Friendship, Desires
"Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain."	Friendship, Difficulty
"Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever."	Faith
"What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?"	Faith
"For this I bless you most: You give much and know not that you give at all."	Government, Generosity
"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."	Success, Ignorance
"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."	God, Stupidity
"Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds."	Knowledge
"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."	Success, Learning
"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."	Economics, Liberty
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."	Love
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Adversity	Age	Ambition
Anger	Anti-God	Anti-Religion
Art	Attitude	Beauty
Beginnings	Children	Choice
Confidence	Criticism	Darkness
Death	Desires	Difficulty
Doubt	Dreams	Economics
Education	Equality	Evil
Excellence	Experience	Faith
Fear	Friends	Friendship
Funerals	Generosity	Glory
God	Good	Government
Greatness	Habits	Happiness
History	Honesty	Honor
Hope	Humor	Ignorance
Intelligence	Joy	Knowledge
Laughter	Law	Learning
Liberty	Lies	Life
Light	Love	Memory
Men	Military	Miscellaneous
Monarchy	Money	Music
Nature	Opportunity	Patriotism
Peace	Poetry	Power
Pride	Quotations	Reading
Religion	Responsibility	Saying Goodbye
School	Sin	Sleeping
Sorrow	Strength	Stupidity
Success	Teaching	Time
Truth	Wants	War
Wisdom	Wishing