Quotes by Khalil Gibran

“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.”

“Rest in reason; move in passion”

“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”

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.

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

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Yesterday is but todays memory, and tomorrow is todays dream.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

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.

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

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they dont, they never were.

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

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

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

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

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

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

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