Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes. Kahlil Gibran More Quotes by Kahlil Gibran More Quotes From Kahlil Gibran The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers. Kahlil Gibran Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt. Kahlil Gibran A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror. Kahlil Gibran Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution. Kahlil Gibran All that spirits desire, spirits attain. Kahlil Gibran Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. Kahlil Gibran Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. Kahlil Gibran 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. Kahlil Gibran And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. Kahlil Gibran It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body. Kahlil Gibran Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity. Kahlil Gibran Sadness is but a wall between two gardens. Kahlil Gibran A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland. Kahlil Gibran Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Kahlil Gibran Man merely discovers' he never can and never will invent. Kahlil Gibran The best of men is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him. Kahlil Gibran Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts. Kahlil Gibran Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow. Kahlil Gibran Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation. Kahlil Gibran 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. Kahlil Gibran
