Kahlil Gibran

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Quotes...

• “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
• “Beauty is a light in the heart.”
• “Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”
• “Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.”
• “The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.”
• “You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
  
• “Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”
  
• “The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.”
• “Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”
• “Every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone. ”
• “To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.”
• “Trust in dreams, for in them is the hidden gate to eternity.”
• “When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
• “Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.”
• “Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.”

Gibran's advice on love to his son...
Think not you can direct the course of love,
for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires,
let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

“Transformation doesn’t ask that you stop being you. It demands that you find a way back to the authenticity and strength that’s already inside of you. You only have to bloom.”

Quote by Cheryl Strayed