Khalil Gibran Quotes

Let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls.

Work is love made visible.

Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

One day you will ask me which is more important: my life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

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

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

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.

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

The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. But it is night that raises them to the stars.

It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone, but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

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

When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

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

Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.