Emerson instructed us to "Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your reading have been to you like the blast of truimpth out of Shakespeare, Seneca, Moses, John and Paul."
Following Emerson's guidance, I offer some of my favorite blasts of triumph. These quotes I draw from The Prophet and other wisdom by Kahlil Gibran.
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PhilosophersNotes on The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran | |||||
Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune. But I say to you that 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 labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.
~ Kahlil Gibran Quotes
from The Prophet
Self-Development Quotes on:
Love, Interconnectedness, Truth, Life, Earth, Dream
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And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
~ Kahlil Gibran Quotes
from The Prophet
Motivational Quotes on:
Love, Intimacy
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you break bread with indifference, you bake bitter bread that feeds but half a man's hunger. And if you grudge the crushing of grapes, your grudge distils a poison in the wine. And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.
~ Kahlil Gibran Quotes
from The Prophet
Inspirational Quotes on:
Love, Joy, Win
You are good when you strive to give of yourself. Yet you are not evil when you seek gain for yourself. For when you strive for gain you are but a root that clings to the earth and sucks at her breast. Surely the fruit cannot say to the root, 'Be like me, ripe and full and ever giving of your abundance.' For to the fruit giving is a need as receiving is a need to the root.
~ Kahlil Gibran Quotes
from The Prophet
Famous Quotes on:
Love, Earth
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy; And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields. And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.
~ Kahlil Gibran Quotes
from The Prophet
Self-Development Quotes on:
Love, Joy, Life, Win
Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing; And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.
~ Kahlil Gibran Quotes
from The Prophet
Motivational Quotes on:
Love
“Big Ideas” are simply the gems I’ve pulled out of my favorite books/seminars/life lessons. These ones I pulled from The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran : On Love
Kahlil Gibran : Work
Kahlil Gibran : Work Is Love Made Visible
Kahlil Gibran : Reason & Passion
Kahlil Gibran : Roots & Fruits
Kahlil Gibran : Growth Thru Pain
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