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


Khalil Gibran

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Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they...
GARY F EVANS... When you add love to sex, it feels as if your soul is being drawn from the chains of gravity into th...
CHLOE THURLOW Love? I always thought love was just something that ate away your sanity, left you with an inferiori...
TOMOKO HAYAKAWA How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad c...
DONNA TARTT The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible s...
WILFRID SELLARS FOOTBALL IS A DECISION GAME BASED ON QUICK THINKING IN RELATION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND YOU AND ...
LERCHE NJANG I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. What is sin?
It is the glory of God not honored.
The holiness of God not reverenced.
...
JOHN PIPER Love is insanity, apparently.
COREY ANN HAYDU Love, real love, the kind that you fall in, isn’t like Corinthians. The “suffereth long” and �...
JULIE ANNE LONG Love without reason is fleeting; love without emotion, dry.
J.R. MORALES Szerzetesek, vannak tanulatlan, közönséges emberek, akik nem gondolnak a nemes dolgokkal, nem hal...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA És Brahmá, a Teremtő, felső ruháját fél vállán átvetve, összetett kézzel meghajolt a Mag...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.
RAQUEL CEPEDA How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. A dead heart is a dead life; keep your heart alive; let your heart beat for something unique!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON There is a law of the natural worlds (the spiritual and the physical) and this is something I have u...
C. JOYBELL C. Real love is feeling so loved and so secure that even your name feels safe in his mouth.
CJ HECK What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a...
DEYTH BANGER ...that what is obvious is not always known, and what is known is not always present.
SAMUEL JOHNSON It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD It is the simple things that are in the ocean. People think that simple things are on the seashore, ...
C. JOYBELL C. I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES Sooner or later, what you do will speak
SOTONYE ANGA Love. What is it truly? Love is a spiritual state, an intangible, often insatiable need to put one's...
BELLA VESPIRA What is love?
It's not empathy, nor kindness.
Empathy takes two, the one who hurts and the...
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS What is the essence of networking? I would say first collecting the dots and then connecting the dot...
SIMCHA GLUCK What is happiness? The feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON ...I've learned that doing what you think is right doesn't always make you feel good. For another, I...
ANN RINALDI I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worr...
RYAN SHECKLER Wanting something badly even though it could hurt you," Bentley repeated. He looked up at the ceilin...
NELLIE CHRISTINE ..i spill into
the kind of silence
only Khalil Gibran would understand.
SANOBER KHAN What lies concealed is unknown; there can be no desire for what is not known.
UNKNOWN You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS All's well that carries on well
AMIT ABRAHAM Life is a matter of choosing what is good for you.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Love ? Love is when you are ready to do every possible and positive thing for someone,
SID I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Do what is best for you; it will be the best for the world.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your pass...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Aimer, ça ne veut pas dire se ressembler. Aimer, ça ne veut pas dire être pareils, se conduire co...
JUSTINE LéVY Romantic love, I think, requires a degree of physical attraction, but devotion is needed to maintain...
ANGELA N. BLOUNT You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.
ALBERTO CAEIRO It is what it is and so is my determination to change 'what is' into a better 'is'.
BRANDON A. TREAN Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER You said that you are ill... but from from what?
DEYTH BANGER I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ...
JOHN MUIR I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa...
ERIK GRIFFIN Let your actions speak LOVE. No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Love does not depend on circumstance - it is a decision, not a feeling.
J.R. MORALES Contrary to popular belief, love is not found. It is achieved.
J.R. MORALES Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO How you see the world is a reflection of what is within you.
STEPHEN RICHARDS Courage is feeling justly afraid and yet still doing what is right.
SHANNON HALE Be a good guide, tell me what you see, are sure is that?
Please try to describe the picture as ...
DEYTH BANGER To see what God is like, we must look at Jesus. He perfectly represents God to men in a form which t...
WILLIAM BARCLAY There’s a reason for the word heartbeat not be called beat of heart. The perfect woman only needs ...
ROBIN SACREDFIRE God exists and he is an atom. So he exists in every thing and everywhere. An atom is a unit and exam...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Sun shines on my back as I walk away
Sun shines on my chest and I return
The fall air is c...
BRENT M. JONES For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA So if it seems like you're doing something different from what everyone else is doing, and if someti...
CRAIG GROESCHEL What shall i say of these save that they too stand in the sunlight, but with their backs to the sun?...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily mani...
DAVE GROHL I saw a lot of men die there. Most men. Do you know what killed them?”…”Despair,” said Finne...
LOUISE PENNY Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the United States is steadily dumbing down.
ISAAC ASIMOV You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unb...
WHY YAWNING IS CONTAGIOUS Be original, be yourself, be you.
ELISE R MAUDE IS A wish is the link between what is and what could be. It is a vine woven into a bridge...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Women think they can act like evil monsters from hell and be loved like a princess. It's as if the d...
ROBIN SACREDFIRE Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS something must go within to bring what is within out. Oh yes! You need something within to bring wha...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Love is not an obsession or a delusion. Love exists in longing and appreciation.
DEBASISH MRIDHA A complaint is a compliment of negativity.
DEBASISH MRIDHA It's a sin only if it harms you
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth - that during any war truth is forsaken fo...
HARRY BROWNE A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,
And Spring came the day after tomorrow,
I would die...
ALBERTO CAEIRO

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ABDESSLEM KHALIL You speak so badly, you make spelling mistakes when you talk
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And when his win...
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KAHLIL GIBRAN Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That...
KAHLIL GIBRAN If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they n...
KAHLIL GIBRAN When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
KAHLIL GIBRAN My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear-a care-woven garment that protects ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and re...
KAHLIL GIBRAN I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you...
KAHLIL GIBRAN In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
KAHLIL GIBRAN For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cea...
KAHLIL GIBRAN They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve...
KAHLIL GIBRAN The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn...
KAHLIL GIBRAN What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?
KAHLIL GIBRAN I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affect...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
KAHLIL GIBRAN I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unk...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
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