Quotes from Khalil Gibran

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower. Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved.

joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

Which of you would be silent - when all else sings together in unison?

I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.

Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist.

Only love and death will change all things.

When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?

I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.

He alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

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

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires.

And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

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.

When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, "I am in the heart of God.

The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.

Love provided me with a tongue and tears.

Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

The best love come from the heart, not from the mouth.

Love that is cleansed by tears will remain eternally pure and beautiful.

Love descends upon our souls by the will of God and not by the demand or the plea of the individual.

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