Life quotes by Kahlil Gibran

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"The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose."
"The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream."
"When you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret."
"To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice."
"Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife."
"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams."
"Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand."
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
"When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life."
"God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them."
"During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has really been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much."
"To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life."
"Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts."
"The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun."