“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”

— Kahlil Gibran · Wisdom quote

— KAHLIL GIBRAN

Writer and poet · 1883 – 1931

Lebanese-American writer and poet, best known for The Prophet (1923), one of the best-selling books of all time.

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

Work is love made visible.

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.

Your friend is your needs answered.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.