{"author":"Kahlil Gibran","author_id":"Kahlil+Gibran","total_quotes":279,"quotes":[{"text":"Imagination sees the complete reality, - it is where past, present and future meet... Imagination is limited neither to the reality which is apparent - nor to one place. It lives everywhere. It is at a centre and feels the vibrations of all the circles within which east and west are virtually included. Imagination is the life of mental freedom. It realizes what everything is in its many aspects ... Imagination does not uplift: we don't want to be uplifted, we want to be more completely aware.","author":"Kahlil Gibran","tags":["centre","freedom-of-speech","future","imagination","present"],"id":557,"author_id":"Kahlil+Gibran"},{"text":"Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.","author":"Kahlil Gibran","tags":["beauty","inspirational","truth"],"id":2196,"author_id":"Kahlil+Gibran"},{"text":"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts;And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime.And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.","author":"Kahlil Gibran","tags":["peace","poetry","silence","solitude"],"id":4925,"author_id":"Kahlil+Gibran"},{"text":"I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength.","author":"Kahlil Gibran","tags":["humility","mercy","solitude"],"id":4990,"author_id":"Kahlil+Gibran"},{"text":"I love you, my brother, whoever you are - whether you worship in a church, kneel in your temple, or pray in your mosque. You and I are children of one faith, for the diverse paths of religion are fingers of the loving hand of the one supreme being, a hand extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, eager to receive all.","author":"Kahlil Gibran","tags":["brotherhood","inspirational","love","religion"],"id":9361,"author_id":"Kahlil+Gibran"},{"text":"For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live.For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.And in th sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.","author":"Kahlil Gibran","tags":["friendship"],"id":9879,"author_id":"Kahlil+Gibran"},{"text":"You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge.","author":"Kahlil Gibran","tags":["judgement","knowledge"],"id":14440,"author_id":"Kahlil+Gibran"},{"text":"Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge.You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams.","author":"Kahlil Gibran","tags":["enlightenment","self-knowledge","the-heart","understanding","wisdom"],"id":14817,"author_id":"Kahlil+Gibran"},{"text":"Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.","author":"Kahlil Gibran","tags":["faith"],"id":15354,"author_id":"Kahlil+Gibran"},{"text":"Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.","author":"Kahlil Gibran","tags":["bond","love","marriage","quiver","relationships","share"],"id":16027,"author_id":"Kahlil+Gibran"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":279,"pages":28,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}