In the 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.
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Quotes by Khalil Gibran
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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.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Your friend is your needs answered.
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.
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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?
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
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