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Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

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 an oasis in the desert.
- Khalil Gibran

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
- Khalil Gibran

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
- Khalil Gibran

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
- Khalil Gibran

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
- Khalil Gibran

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

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

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
- Khalil Gibran

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