The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
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If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth.Kahlil Gibran
Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.
Kahlil Gibran
You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet you may even throw me into a dark prison but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free.
Kahlil Gibran
I am bored with gabbers and their gab my soul abhors them.... Is there any place where there is no traffic in empty talk Is there on this earth one who does not worship himself talking.
Kahlil Gibran
Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.
Kahlil Gibran
A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks but the face which, in silence, does not announce hidden mysteries is not beautiful, regardless of the symmetry of its features.
Kahlil Gibran
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