“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.”
— Khalil Gibran
Sad
“Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.”
— Khalil Gibran
Happiness
“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.”
— Khalil Gibran
Teacher
“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”
— Khalil Gibran
Poetry
“Love is trembling happiness.”
— Khalil Gibran
Happiness
“Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.”
— Khalil Gibran
Love
“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”
— Khalil Gibran
Faith
“Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.”
— Khalil Gibran
Equality
“The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.”
— Khalil Gibran
God
“Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.”
— Khalil Gibran
Faith
“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.”
— Khalil Gibran
Beauty
“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
“Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.”
— Khalil Gibran
Dreams
“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”
— Khalil Gibran
Knowledge
“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
— Khalil Gibran
Nature
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
— Khalil Gibran
Strength
“Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.”
— Khalil Gibran
Fear
“Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.”
— Khalil Gibran
Art
“Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.”
— Khalil Gibran
Knowledge
“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.”
— Khalil Gibran
Sympathy