An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
– Kahlil Gibran
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- A false love, begins with the eye and soon spills from the eye in pain. Where a true love, begins with the eye, and settles in the heart. – Anthony Liccione
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- Beauty is a thing of might and dread.Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us. – Kahlil Gibran
- Believing is a fine thing, but putting those beliefs into execution is a test of strength. – Kahlil Gibran
- You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good, you are only loitering and sluggard. – Kahlil Gibran
- Yesterday was a beautiful tune on the lips of life and today is a silent secret. – Kahlil Gibran
- Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness. – Kahlil Gibran
- All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. – Kahlil Gibran
- What is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge? – Kahlil Gibran
- When you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very hour, and whom save in prayer you may not meet. – Kahlil Gibran
- Stand together yet not too near together:For the pillars of the temples stand apart,And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each others shadow. – Kahlil Gibran
- You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept. – Kahlil Gibran
- The house that does not comfort the needy is worthy of naught but destruction. – Kahlil Gibran
- To belittle, you have to be little. – Kahlil Gibran
- The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention. – Kahlil Gibran
- Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone,And a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse – Kahlil Gibran
- Not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city. – Kahlil Gibran
- Self is a sea boundless and measureless. – Kahlil Gibran
- you are good when you strive to give of yourself. – Kahlil Gibran
- You make such a noise falling! You scatter all my winter dreams – Kahlil Gibran
- Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. – Kahlil Gibran
- There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea. – Kahlil Gibran
- Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky. – Kahlil Gibran
- Long ago you were a dream in your mother’s sleep, and then she awoke to give you birth. – Kahlil Gibran
- Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets. – Kahlil Gibran
- The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold. – Kahlil Gibran
- What is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? – Kahlil Gibran