Kahlil Gibran

The smallest act of kindness is worth 
more than the greatest intention.
~Kahlil Gibran~

The reality of the other person
is not in what he reveals to you,
but in what he cannot reveal to you.
Therefore, if you would understand him,
listen not to what he says
but rather what he does not say.
~Kahlil Gibran~

You give but little when you give
of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself
that you truly give.
~Kahlil Gibran~

Forget not that the earth delights
to feel your bare feet
and the winds long
to play with your hair.
~Kahlil Gibran~

When you work you are a flute
through whose heart the whispering
of the hours turns to music.
Which of you would be a reed,
dumb and silent,
when all else sings together in unison?
~Kahlil Gibran~

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

Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor
would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
~Kahlil Gibran~

Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.
~Kahlil Gibran~

Love knows not its depth
till the hour of separation.
~Kahlil Gibran~

A friend who is far away
is sometimes much nearer
than one who is at hand.
Is not the mountain far
more awe-inspiring
and more clearly visible
to one passing through the valley
than to those who
inhabit the mountain?
~Kahlil Gibran~

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
~Kahlil Gibran~

Give and Take...
For to the bee
a flower is a fountain if life
And to the flower
a bee is a messenger of love
And to both, bee and flower,
the giving and the receiving
is a need and an ecstasy.
~Kahlil Gibran~

We choose our joys and sorrows
long before we experience them.
~Kahlil Gibran~

Generosity is giving more than you can,
and pride is taking less than you need.
~Kahlil Gibran~

During my youth,
Love will be my teacher;
in middle age, my help;
and in old age, my delight.
~Kahlil Gibran~

When you are joyous,
look deep into your heart
and you shall find it is only that
which has given you sorrow
that is giving you joy.
When you are sorrowful
look again in your heart,
and you shall see that in truth
you are weeping for that
which has been your delight.
~Kahlil Gibran~

My friends and my road-fellows, 
pity the nation that is full of beliefs 
and empty of religion. 
Pity the nation that wears 
a cloth it does not weave, 
eats a bread it does not harvest, 
and drinks a wine that flows not 
from its own winepress. 
Pity the nation that acclaims 
the bully as hero, and that 
deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. 
Pity the nation that raises not its voice 
save when it walks in a funeral, 
boasts not except among its ruins, 
and will rebel not save when 
its neck is laid between the sword 
and the block. 
Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, 
whose philosopher is a juggler, 
and whose art is the art 
of patching and mimicking. 
Pity the nation that 
welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, 
and farewells him with hootings, 
only to welcome another with trumpetings again. 
Pity the nation divided into fragments, 
each fragment deeming itself a nation. 
~Kahlil Gibran~ 

André Gide

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, 
and do not prepare your joys. 
~André Gide~ 

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Eternity is not something that begins
after you are dead.
It is going on all the time.
~Charlotte Perkins Gilman~

Roy R. Gilson

Keep your faith in all beautiful things; 
in the sun when it is hidden, 
in the Spring when it is gone. 
~Roy R. Gilson~ 

Nikki Giovanni

There is always something to do. 
There are hungry people to feed, 
naked people to clothe, 
sick people to comfort and make well. 
And while I don't expect you to save the world 
I do think it's not asking too much 
for you to love those with whom you sleep, 
share the happiness of those whom you call friend, 
engage those among you who are visionary 
and remove from your life those who 
offer you depression, despair and disrespect. 
~Nikki Giovanni~ 

Delphine De Girardin

To love one who loves you,
To admire one who admires you,
In a word, to be the idol of one's idol,
Is exceeding the limit of human joy;
It is stealing fire from heaven.
~Delphine De Girardin~

Loretta Girzartis

If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, 
or whispers a word of encouragement, 
or attempts to understand a lonely person, 
extraordinary things begin to happen. 
~Loretta Girzartis~ 

Arnold H. Glasgow

Live so that your friends 
can defend you but never have to. 
~Arnold H. Glasgow~ 

Jan Glidewell

You can clutch the past
so tightly to your chest
that it leaves your arms too full
to embrace the present.
~Jan Glidewell~

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nothing is worth more than this day.
You cannot relive yesterday.
Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe~

To think is easy. To act is difficult.
To act as one thinks is the most difficult.
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe~

Against criticism a man can neither
protest nor defend himself;
he must act in spite of it, and then
it will gradually yield to him.
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe~

If you treat an individual ...
as if he were what he ought to be and could be,
he will become what he ought to be and could be.
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe~

A man should hear a little music,
read a little poetry,
and see a fine picture
every day of his life,
in order that worldly cares
may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful
which God has implanted
in the human soul.
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe~

Correction does much,
but encouragement does more.
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe~

If I accept you as you are,
I will make you worse;
however if I treat you as though
you are what you are capable of becoming,
I help you become that.
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe~

We don't get to know people
when they come to us;
we must go to them
to find out what they are like.
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe~

Every author in some way
portrays himself in his works,
even if it be against his will.
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe~

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe~

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult,
and to put one's thoughts into action
is the most difficult thing in the world.
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe~

Talents are best nurtured in solitude:
character is best formed
in the stormy billows of the world.
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe~

All truly wise thoughts
have been thought already
thousands of times;
but to make them truly ours,
we must think them over again
honestly, till they take root in our
personal experience.
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe~

First and last,
what is demanded of genius
is love of truth.
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe~

The most original authors are not so 
because they advance what is new, 
but because they put what they have to say 
as if it had never been said before. 
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. 
Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. 
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~

When we treat man as he is, 
we make him worse than he is; 
when we treat him as if he already were 
what he potentially could be, 
we make him what he should be. 
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~ 

Thaddeus Golas

What happens is not as important 
as how you react to what happens. 
~Thaddeus Golas~ 

Natalie Goldberg

Sometimes when you think you are done, 
it is just the edge of beginning. 
Probably that's why we decide we're done. 
It's getting too scary. 
We are touching down onto something real. 
It is beyond the point when you think you are done 
that often something strong comes out. 
~Natalie Goldberg~ 

Emma Goldman

I'd rather have roses on my table 
than diamonds on my neck. 
~Emma Goldman~ 

Missy Good

Courage, her mother had once told her, 
was not simply the fact that you weren't scared of anything,. 
it was being scared, and doing whatever it was anyway. 
Courage was dealing with your fears, and not letting them rule you. 
~ Missy Good~

Annette Goodheart

Just because you're miserable
doesn't mean you can't enjoy your life.
~Annette Goodheart~

Jane Goodall

When I left home and faced the realities of the world, 
I put my thoughts of God in cold storage for awhile, 
because I couldn’t reconcile what I believed, 
deep inside, with what was going on around me. 
But that early period, when God was 
as real as the wind that blew from the sea 
through the pine trees in the garden; 
left me with inner peace, which, as I grew older, swelled – 
until, perforce, I had to open my mind to God again. 
~Jane Goodall~ 

Annie Gottlieb

Respect ... is appreciation of 
the separateness of the other person, 
of the ways in which he or she is unique. 
~Annie Gottlieb~ 

John B. Gough

What is a minority? 
The chosen heroes of this earth 
have been in a minority. 
There is not a social, political, or 
religious privilege that you enjoy today 
that was not bought for you 
by the blood and tears and patient suffering 
of the minority. It is the minority 
that have stood in the van 
of every moral conflict, 
and achieved all that is noble 
in the history of the world. 
~John B. Gough~ 

Lord Lew Grade

I sometimes say that success just happens. 
That's not true. You have to make it happen. 
When I make up my mind to do something, 
I make sure it happens. 
You can't wait for the phone to ring. 
You have to ring them. 
~Lord Lew Grade~

Billy Graham

Have you ever seen God?
I have never seen the wind,
yet I have seen the effects of the wind.
~Billy Graham~

Courage is contagious.
When a brave man takes a stand,
the spines of others are stiffened.
~Billy Graham~

Comfort and prosperity have never
enriched the world as much as
adversity has. Out of pain and problems
have come the sweetest songs,
and the most gripping stories.
~Billy Graham~

Margaret C. Graham

Conscience ... is the impulse to do right 
because it is right, regardless of personal ends. 
~Margaret C. Graham~ 

Martha Graham

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
~Martha Graham~

Ulysses S. Grant

The friend in my adversity
I shall always cherish most.
I can better trust those who
helped to relieve the gloom
of my dark hours than those
who are so ready to enjoy with me
the sunshine of my prosperity.
~Ulysses S. Grant~

I have never advocated war
except as a means of peace.
~Ulysses S. Grant~

John Gray

Developing the mind is important,
but developing a conscience
is the most precious gift
parents can give their children.
~John Gray~

David Grayson

Adventure is not outside man;
it is within.
~David Grayson~

I sometimes think we expect too much 
of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it 
the long arrears of kindliness and humanity 
of the whole year. As for me, 
I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, 
all through the year. 
And thus I drift along into the holidays -- 
let them overtake me unexpectedly -- 
waking up some fine morning 
and suddenly saying to myself: 
"Why this is Christmas Day!" 
~David Grayson~ 

Bette Greene

What is genius, anyway, 
if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response 
to a great challenge? 
~Bette Greene~ 

Stephan Grellet

I expect to pass through this world but once; 
any good thing therefore that I can do, 
or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, 
let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, 
for I shall not pass this way again. 
~Stephan Grellet~

W. Kelly Griffith

Any necessary work 
that pays an honest wage 
carries its own honor and dignity. 
~W. Kelly Griffith~ 

A. Whitney Griswold

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, 
or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? 
Could the New Testament have been composed 
as a conference report? 
Creative ideas do not spring from groups. 
They spring from individuals. 
The divine spark leaps from the finger of God 
to the finger of Adam. 
~A. Whitney Griswold~ President, Yale 

Adam R. Gwizdala

Life goes through changes so fast, 
you think your life is great, 
than one of your best friends dies. 
Then you think you found someone you truly love, 
only to figure out, she doesn't love you back. 
You cry and cry and cry, but nothing changes. 
You realize, that you must accept things for what they are, 
and what they have made you become. 
~Adam R. Gwizdala~

Everything in life changes you in some way. 
Even the smallest things. 
If you do not accept these changes, 
you do not accept yourself. 
For through these changes 
brings new and greater things to you, 
making you wiser, as time progresses. 
To avoid these changes is a loss. 
You only live your life once. 
Do not waste a minute of it avoiding things. 
Let them come to you, 
and learn from them. 
There's always tomorrow. 
~Adam R. Gwizdala~ 

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