Khalil Gibran Quotes

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

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• The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Together
  • Growing
  • Friend

• It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • War
  • Me
  • Amazing

• So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Darkness
  • Stillness

• I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Simple
  • Ocean
  • Beach

• My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Work
  • Why

• I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Done

• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Gay
  • Living
  • Lesbian

• There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • Time
  • Responsibility

• Your mind is what makes everything else work.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Everything

• If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • History
  • Hate

• I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Want
  • End
  • Destroy

• Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Up
  • Good
  • Game

• I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Religious

• Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Want
  • Never
  • Hotel

• When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Time
  • Great
  • Writing

• I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Power
  • History
  • Past

• When I just sit around my house and work, I can work two, three hours, and then I go off and ride a horse or do something that I perceive to be a lot more fun.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Work
  • Fun
  • House

• Long distance information, give me Memphis Tennessee Help me find the party trying to get in touch with me She could not leave her number, but I know who placed the call 'Cause my uncle took the message and he wrote it on the wall

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Long
  • Trying
  • She

• Help them to learn songs of joy, instead of burn, baby, burn.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Help
  • Song
  • Joy

• Don't miss understand me, I'm not getting soft, all I want is a couple days off.

  

  Hugh Anthony Cregg III Clover
  • Work
  • Couple
  • Missing

• I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes. I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.

  

  Dave Attell
  • Writing

• When you're faced with a choice, remember this: Everything else will pass away. Your family. Your friends. Your material possessions. Your beauty. Your youth. Your life. And there is only one thing that remains. Ask yourself: Which are you chasing?

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• 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
  • Work
  • Joy