Quotes from Kahlil Gibran

There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing

Let your best be for your friend...

Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course

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

Qualities of Good Citizens... is to admire what others have created in love and faith.

Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure. Love that is washed by tears will remain eternally pure and faithful.

Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.

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.

When you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labor you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.

When you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.

Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms Without the aid of the seasons.

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.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

Love is blind deaf dumb and stupid. If I ever find that little turd I'm gonna kill cupid once and for all.

Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

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

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 created for years or even generations

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

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

Marriage is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is Eternity.