Quotes by Kahlil Gibran

“When you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born,And what is it to work with love?It is to weave the cloth with threads drawn from your heart, ev...”

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

“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 ...”

“Then a ploughman said , speak to us of work : in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life ,And to love life throught labour is to be intimate with inmost secrets .And what is it to...”

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

“When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to y...”

“No human relation gives one possession in anotherevery two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.”

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

“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 c...”

“But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.To know the pain of too much tenderness.To be wounded b...”

“Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust...”

“For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart.”

“They say: 'If a man knew himself,he would know all mankind.'I say: 'If a man loved mankind,he would know something of himself.”

“When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”

“You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days.Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.But le...”

“And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”

“love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. give one another of your bread but e...”

“Darkness may hide the treesand the flowers from the eyesbut it cannot hidelove from the soul.”

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

“Je tiefer sich das Leid in euer Sein eingrbt, desto mehr Freude knnt ihr fassen.”