Khalil Gibran Quotes

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

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

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

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

Love is trembling happiness.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

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

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

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

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

Your friend is your needs answered.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Rest in reason; move in passion.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

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.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

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

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

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

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.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?

The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.