Khalil Gibran Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.”

“Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

“Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.”

“Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.”

“You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.”

“Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.”

“I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.”

“Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.”

“The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.”

“If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.”