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.
Weitere Zitate von Kahlil Gibran
Zum Autor"You cannot judge any man beyond your knowledge of him, and how small is your knowledge."
"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts;And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime.And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered."
"Behind the veil of each night, there is a smiling dawn."
"A sense of humour is a sense of proportion."
"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."
"Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge.You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.You would touch with your fingers the naked body of your dreams."