Kahlil Gibran Quotes

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

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

No human relation gives one possession in another - every 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.

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

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.

He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both.

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.

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

Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

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

What is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?

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.

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

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. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.

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.

Darkness may hide the trees
and the flowers from the eyes
but it cannot hide
love from the soul.

He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering.

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

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself, Love possesses not nor would it be possessed: For love is sufficient unto love.

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