Khalil Gibran Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Happiness, Success

• If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Motivational, Family

  Prophet (1923) "On Work"

• When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay. And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart; For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed. When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

  Khalil Gibran

  Friendship, Heart, Grieving

  Khalil Gibran, “Friendship IXX”

• 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

  Morning, Helping Others, Giving

• 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.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Joy, Sorrow

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

• Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

  Khalil Gibran

  Pain, Reading Poetry, Joy

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

• 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.

  Khalil Gibran

  Prayer, Joy, Needs

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

• There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

  Khalil Gibran

  Happiness, Famous Inspirational, Giving

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.34, Lulu.com

• Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Prophet (1923) "On Work"

• 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

  Giving, Joy, Understanding

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.36, Lulu.com

• The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com

• I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes; nor would I be content with converting my tears, invited by my agonized self, into calm. It is my fervent hope that my whole life on this earth will ever be tears and laughter. Tears that purify my heart and reveal to me the secret of life and its mystery, Laughter that brings me closer to my fellow men; Tears with which I join the broken-hearted, Laugher that symbolizes joy over my very existence.

  Khalil Gibran

  Laughter, Heart, Men

• joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Sadness

  Khalil Gibran, “Joy And Sorrow Chapter VIII”

• Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger. And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distils a poison in the wine. And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man's ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.

  Khalil Gibran

  Change, Crush, Angel

  'The Prophet' (1923) 'On Work'

• Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure. Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Pain, Heart

• Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Pain, Philosophy

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.84, Lulu.com

• The biggest thing in today's sorrow is the memory of yesterday's joy.

  Khalil Gibran

  Memories, Regret, Moving

• Youth is a beautiful dream, on whose brightness books shed a blinding dust. Will ever the day come when the wise link the joy of knowledge to youth's dream? Will ever the day come when Nature becomes the teacher of man, humanity his book and life his school? Youth's joyous purpose cannot be fulfilled until that day comes. Too slow is our march toward spiritual elevation, because we make so little use of youth's ardor.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Wise, Dream

• The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain... When you are joyous look deep into your heart and you will find that it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Inspirational Love, Heart

  Khalil Gibran, “Joy And Sorrow Chapter VIII”

• He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy. [for without sorrow how would you know what joy is? Contrast provides peceptive clarity]

  Khalil Gibran

  Gratitude, Joy, Sorrow

• Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.

  Khalil Gibran

  Joy, Sorrow, Fever Series

• There are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue; They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Pain, Space

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

• My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my thirst. But in this burning that is never extinguished is a joy that never wanes.

  Khalil Gibran

  Joy, Solitude, Burning

  "The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul". Book by Kahlil Gibran, translated by Juan R. I. Cole, 1994.

• 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?

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational Love, Laughter, Wine

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

• He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.

  Khalil Gibran

  Happiness, Joy, Sorrow

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