A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
- Topic: Adversity, Happiness
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More Quotes from Kahlil Gibran
Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.
Work is love made visible.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.
I've learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
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If people knew how hard worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire.
Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; and after summer evermore succeeds barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: so cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.
The shell must break before the bird can fly.
If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain.
Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
