It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving. Khalil Gibran More Quotes by Khalil Gibran More Quotes From Khalil Gibran Our pain carves out a larger space for love to fill. Khalil Gibran pain space Work is love made visable. Khalil Gibran made Let us disperse from our aloofness and serve the weak who made us strong, and cleanse the country in which we live. Let us teach this miserable nation to smile and rejoice with heaven's bounty and glory of life and freedom. Khalil Gibran strong heaven country You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor; and fitter that he should be a victim to the frailty of human instincts than that he should be powerful and crush the flowers of life and disfigure the beauties of feeling with his desire. Khalil Gibran crush powerful flower We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another, and no sunrise finds us where left by sunset. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of that tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind to be scattered. Khalil Gibran sunset spiritual heart Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is man's purpose to be happy on this earth and lead the way to felicity and preach its gospel wherever he goes. He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life. We came not into this life by exile, but we came as innocent creatures of God, to learn how to worship the holy and eternal spirit and seek the hidden secrets within ourselves from the beauty of life. Khalil Gibran teaching men life He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both. Khalil Gibran loses life For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Khalil Gibran clock-is-ticking flames passion Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night; and it is not dreamless. Does not your house dream, and dreaming, leave the city for grove or hilltop? Khalil Gibran dream sleep night Let ignorance reproduce itself until it is weary of its own offspring. Khalil Gibran weary offspring ignorance 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. Khalil Gibran clouds father jesus Love prides itself not only in the one who loves, but also in the beloved. Khalil Gibran beloved pride Limited love asks for possession of the beloved, but the unlimited asks only for itself. Khalil Gibran beloved possession unlimited We who love Him beheld Him with these our eyes which He made to see; and we touched Him with these our hands which He taught to reach forth. Khalil Gibran taught eye hands When you were a wandering desire in the mist, I too was there, a wandering desire. Then we sought one another, and out of our eagerness dreams were born. And dreams were time limitless, and dreams were space without measure. Khalil Gibran space dream desire 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. Khalil Gibran hopelessness disappointment hands But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? Khalil Gibran skylarks earth sun The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable. Khalil Gibran negligence silence house Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. Khalil Gibran best-friend sweet friendship Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination. Khalil Gibran determination life-is desire
