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Khalil Gibran Quotes About Love

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Khalil Gibran Quotes About Life

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

More Quotes by Khalil Gibran

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

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

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

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

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

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

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

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