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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
You
Joy
Distress
Would
Abundance
Days
Also
Pray
Might
Your
Fullness
Need
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Khalil Gibran
Dreams
Those
Visions
Dreamer
Without
Lord
Than
Prefer
Realized
Among
Humblest
Desires
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
Khalil Gibran
You
Remember
Will
Other
Him
Always
Person
Forget
May
Injure
Injury
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
Khalil Gibran
Master
Lust
Guest
Host
House
Comfort
Becomes
Then
Thing
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Khalil Gibran
Art
Step
Concealed
Toward
Obvious
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Khalil Gibran
Joy
Pain
Dash
Poetry
Deal
Wonder
Dictionary
I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
Khalil Gibran
Time
Shall
Am
Till
Exist
Existed
End
Behold
Being
Eternity
Here
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Khalil Gibran
Heart
Mind
He
Look
Understand
Person
Achieved
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Khalil Gibran
Work
Love
You
Better
Distaste
Only
Leave
Cannot
Should
Your
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Khalil Gibran
Moving On
You
Physician
Pain
Sick
Bitter
Self
Heals
Within
Which
Much
Your
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Khalil Gibran
Art
Silence
Knowledge
Ignorance
Affection
Imagination
Those
Chattering
Hands
Who
Wash
Imagine
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Khalil Gibran
God
Knowledge
You
Learning
Grief
Consider
Insignificant
He
Learn
Gloom
Bliss
Came
Person
Might
Ignorant
Who
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
Khalil Gibran
Love
Equality
Will
Poverty
Generations
Learn
Coming
Woes
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
Khalil Gibran
Me
Knowledge
Mother
Atoms
Incumbent
Characteristics
Minutiae
My Self
Self
Know
Very
Subtleties
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
Khalil Gibran
Truth
Exaggeration
Lost
Temper
Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
War
You
Money
Advice
Broker
General
Take
Never
Never Take
Tie
Bankrupt
Anyone
Ask
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Education
Learning
Too Much
College
Enjoy
Too
Mark
Mark Zuckerberg
Worry
Jobs
About
Finish
Emphasis
Steve
Steve Jobs
Grades
Children
Formal
Formal Education
Placed
Much
Bill
Bill Gates
Gates
Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below.
Ameen Rihani
Government
Few
Above
Autocracy
Bolshevism
Below
You have your ideology and I have mine.
Khalil Gibran
You
Ideology
Mine
Your
The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Time
You
Experience
Sky
Will
Looking
Solace
Recognize
Some
Blackout
Take
Next
Next Time
In 1982, Algeria made their first appearance at the World Cup. I believe it was the first Arab country to do so.
Rabih Alameddine
World
Made
First
Country
Believe
Algeria
Arab
First Appearance
Cup
Appearance
World Cup
If you are a lawyer, and you want to take on easier cases, you can prosecute traffic violations or something. You'd have a very high rate of success, and you probably could sleep more easily at night. But that's not what drives me.
Amal Clooney
Success
Me
You
Lawyer
Easier
Easily
High
Cases
Rate
Something
More
Could
Take
Drives
Traffic
Very
Want
Violations
Night
Sleep
Protecting free speech is not only a matter of principle, it is also pragmatic.
Amal Clooney
Matter
Free
Free Speech
Only
Also
Protecting
Principle
Pragmatic
Speech
To copy Nature? A boy with a camera can do that. To get the spirit of Nature? A woodman or a shepherd can follow the trail of the whistling wind to hoarded sunshine in distant wolds. But to interpret Nature and inform it with a human personality that rises above it, invokes the divine in it, is the work of genius.
Ameen Rihani
Work
Nature
Genius
Personality
Sunshine
Wind
Distant
Follow
Spirit
Above
Rises
Divine
Boy
Shepherd
Camera
Trail
Get
Human
Inform
Whistling
Human Personality
Interpret
Copy
So long as there is imperialism in the world, a permanent peace is impossible.
Hassan Nasrallah
Peace
World
Impossible
Long
Imperialism
Permanent
Permanent Peace
It is unacceptable, it is forbidden, to harm the innocent.
Hassan Nasrallah
Innocent
Unacceptable
Forbidden
Harm
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