Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883-April 10, 1931) was a Syrian-born American painter and poet, noted for his mystic perspective on life.
In his 1923 work, The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran wrote On Prayer:
<You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.> 1883KG001
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Endnotes:
1883KG001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Kahlil Gibran, 1923, in The Prophet; On Prayer. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 782.