I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy. Khalil Gibran More Quotes by Khalil Gibran More Quotes From Khalil Gibran And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. Khalil Gibran happiness inspirational life Do not keep crying when your love has been gone. You only need Smile because he had been given you the opportunity to meet someone who is better. Khalil Gibran gone opportunity needs Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights. Khalil Gibran vigor strange rights Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness. Khalil Gibran timeless spiritual writing Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who say every sort of wicked thing about me because I sacrificed their friendship to gain my own soul. I left the dark paths of their duplicity and turned my eyes toward the light where there is salvation, truth, and justice. They have exiled me now from their society, yet I am content. Mankind only exiles the one whose large spirit rebels against injustice and tyranny. He who does not prefer exile to servility is not free in the true and necessary sense of freedom. Khalil Gibran eye spiritual dark If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom? Khalil Gibran anger flower love We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting Khalil Gibran beautiful-women beauty civilization Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' Khalil Gibran truth spiritual inspirational Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?' Khalil Gibran mute made men Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. Khalil Gibran reading-poetry pain joy I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us. Khalil Gibran safety loneliness spiritual Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. Khalil Gibran inspiring inspirational life It has been said that next to hunger and thirst, our most basic human need is for storytelling. Khalil Gibran hunger-and-thirst next needs All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself. Khalil Gibran love-you men life Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility. Khalil Gibran pain sick self In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a shining dawn. Khalil Gibran heart winter spring Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind. Khalil Gibran mom mother beautiful Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain. Khalil Gibran pain spiritual desire I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires. Khalil Gibran vision dream reality Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun. Khalil Gibran nature flower faces
