“Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”
– Kahlil Gibran
The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
– Kahlil Gibran
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
– Kahlil Gibran
Luxury: The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
– Kahlil Gibran
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
? 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
Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness.
– Kahlil Gibran
You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore….but let there be spaces in your togetherness. And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
– 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 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
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
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
– Kahlil Gibran
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
– Kahlil Gibran
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
– 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
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.
– Kahlil Gibran
“By losing your goal, you have lost your way.”
– Kahlil Gibran
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house as a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
– Kahlil Gibran
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