And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

Khalil Gibran

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Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?

suffering heart heaven

Those to whom worshiping is a window, to open but also to shut, have not yet visited the house of their souls whose windows are open from dawn to dawn.

dawn soul house

Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius i... by Khalil Gibran

Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.

irritated genius tears

Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed? See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.

pride giving men

He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.

skins tears wind

Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you ca... by Khalil Gibran

Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep."

running inspirational life

Comfort murders the passion of the soul, then walks grinning at t... by Khalil Gibran

Comfort murders the passion of the soul, then walks grinning at the funeral.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night. by Khalil Gibran

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.