Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.


Khalil Gibran

896

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.


Khalil Gibran

896

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

896

Love is trembling happiness.


Khalil Gibran

896

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.


Khalil Gibran

896

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.


Khalil Gibran

896

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

896

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.


Khalil Gibran

896

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


Khalil Gibran

896

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.


Khalil Gibran

896

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

896

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.


Khalil Gibran

896

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.


Khalil Gibran

896

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.


Khalil Gibran

896

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.


Khalil Gibran

896

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.


Khalil Gibran

896

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.


Khalil Gibran

896

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.


Khalil Gibran

896

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.


Khalil Gibran

896

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


Khalil Gibran

896

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