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Love Quote by Kahlil Gibran

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed"

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Gibran sneaks a philosophy of intimacy into the language of breakfast and weather. Friendship, in this framing, isn’t a solemn pact or a grand moral project; it’s a daily climate you cultivate. “Sweetness” and “laughter” tilt the whole idea away from duty and toward ease, as if the healthiest bonds are the ones that don’t constantly audition for depth. He’s not romanticizing superficiality; he’s arguing that joy is the proof of sturdiness, not a distraction from it.

The phrase “sharing of pleasures” is doing quiet work. Pleasures are portable, repeatable, small enough to pass back and forth without turning into a ledger. That subtext pushes against the friendships that survive only on crisis management or self-disclosure-as-performance. Gibran’s friend isn’t just the person you call when your life collapses; it’s the person who makes an ordinary hour feel inhabitable.

Then he lands the thesis with a sensory image: “the dew of little things.” Dew is transient, easily missed, and exactly what makes morning feel new. He’s telling you to look for the micro-rituals: the private joke, the shared snack, the unremarkable walk. Those moments “refresh” because they reset the emotional system the way dawn resets the day.

Context matters: Gibran, writing as a poet-philosopher in diaspora, often tried to reconcile spiritual yearning with human-scale living. This is his anti-grandiosity: a gentle insistence that the heart doesn’t wake up to ideals, it wakes up to details.

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TopicFriendship
SourceKahlil Gibran, The Prophet (1923), section "On Friendship" — contains the lines beginning "In the sweetness of friendship...the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."
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Gibran, Kahlil. (2026, January 15). In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-the-sweetness-of-friendship-let-there-be-36517/

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Gibran, Kahlil. "In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-the-sweetness-of-friendship-let-there-be-36517/.

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"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-the-sweetness-of-friendship-let-there-be-36517/. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.

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Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883 - April 10, 1931) was a Poet from Lebanon.

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