Khalil Gibran Quotes, Heart Quotes, Joy Quotes

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. Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater." But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy.

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Life is the mistress to be wooed.

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If I extend an empty hand and in retrieving it and finding it still empty, I feel disappointment, that is foolishness; yet if I extend a hand which is full and yet find no one to receive it, then that is hopelessness.

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Now I realize that the trees blossom in Spring and bear fruit in Summer without seeking praise; and they drop their leaves in Autumn and become naked in Winter without fearing blame.

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I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom; I am in comfort, I am in peace.

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Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

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Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

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Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight more in breaking them.

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Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

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The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.

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Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping, For only the hand of God can contain your hearts.

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History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.

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I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.

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They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

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O love, whose lordly hand Has bridled my desires, And raised my hunger and my thirst To dignity and pride, Let not the strong in me and the constant Eat the bread or drink the wine That tempt my weaker self. Let me rather starve, And let my heart parch with thirst, And let me die and perish, Ere I stretch my hand To a cup you did not fill, Or a bowl you did not bless.

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Reason is not like the goods sold in the market places--the more plentiful they are, the less they are worth. Reason's worth waxes with her abundance. But were she sold in the market, it is only the wise man who would understand her true value.

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Yet has not Man wept at the sounds? And are not his tears eloquent understanding?

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

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Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.

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They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom

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