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Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Khalil Gibran

Truth

Rebellion

Spring

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Khalil Gibran

Pain

Self

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Khalil Gibran

Truth

Doctrine

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Khalil Gibran

Love

Being

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Khalil Gibran

Love

Will

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Khalil Gibran

Love

Sea

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

Khalil Gibran

Love

Doubt

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

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.