Quotes from Khalil Gibran

Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born.

All work is empty save when there is love.

Art is a step in the known toward the unknown

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Work is love made visable.

You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth.

When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.

If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.

Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.

Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.

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

When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

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.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.

Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.

Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?

The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.

He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.

In every aspect of the day Jesus was aware of the Father. He beheld Him in the clouds and in the shadows of the clouds that pass over the earth.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

What is fear of need but need itself?