"How distant I am from people when..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran

“When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.”

“To belittle, you have to be little.”

“He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.”

“letters are venerable; and the telephone valiant, for the journey is a lonely one, and if bound together by notes and telephones we went in company, perhaps - who knows? - we might talk by the way.”

“Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better.”

“When loneliness comes stalking, go into the fields, consider the orderliness of the world.”

“With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.”

“If I hold you with my emotions,you'll become a wished-for companion.”

“I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.”