Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you, or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are…

Quote by Kahlil Gibran

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Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by...

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by...

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

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

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till...

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till...

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth...

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth...

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the...

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the...

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in...

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in...

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only...

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only...

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving...

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving...

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of...

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of...

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it...

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it...

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him,...

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him,...

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds...

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds...

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then...

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then...

That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an...

That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an...

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.