Khalil Gibran - Work is love made visible. And if you...

Love, Work, Joy

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

Other quotes by Khalil Gibran

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

- Khalil Gibran

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

- Khalil Gibran

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

- Khalil Gibran

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

- Khalil Gibran

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

- Khalil Gibran

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

- Khalil Gibran

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