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Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.

Let passion fill your sails, but let reason be your rudder.

Khalil Gibran
Passion, Enthusiasm, Reason

Rest in reason. Move in Passion.

Khalil Gibran
Work, Moving, Passion

Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.

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Passion, Heart, Hell
Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason that are within you. Keep a watchful eye over yourself as if you were your own enemy; for you cannot learn to govern yourself, unless you first learn to govern your own passions and obey the dictates of your conscience.

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Passion, Eye, Discipline

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.

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War, Passion, Soul
Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.

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Passion, Funeral, Soul
Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.54, Lulu.com

Among the hills, when you sit in the cool shade of the white poplars, sharing the peace and serenity of distant fields and meadows - then let your heart say in silence, "God rests in reason." And when the storm comes, and the mighty wind shakes the forest, and thunder and lightning proclaim the majesty of the sky, - then let your heart say in awe, "God moves in passion.

Khalil Gibran
Moving, Passion, Heart
Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.82, Lulu.com

Your reason and your passion are your rudder and 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.

Khalil Gibran
Spiritual, Passion, Flames
Khalil Gibran, “Reason And Passion XV”

For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

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Passion, Clock Is Ticking, Flames
Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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
Passion, Phoenix, Ashes
Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

The brooks flow to their lover, the sea, and the flowers smile at the object of their passion, the light. The mist rolls down to its beloved, the valley. And I? In me is what brooks do not know, what flowers do not hear, what the mist does not apprehend. You see me alone in my love, solitary in my yearning.

Khalil Gibran
Flower, Passion, Light

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