PinIf you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.PinI prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.PinOut of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.PinYou talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.PinLife without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.PinMusic is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.PinTo understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.PinI love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.PinWe choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.PinThe timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dreamPinTrees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.PinOne’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.PinYou pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.PinWe are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.PinTrust in dreams, for in them is the hidden gate to eternity.PinLife without liberty is like a body without spirit.PinDoubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.PinOur anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.PinFollow your heart. Your heart is the right guide in everything big.PinHe that tries to seize an opportunity after it has passed him by is like one who sees it approach but will not go to meet it.
20 Kahlil Gibran Quotes on Love and Marriage (FRIENDSHIP)
PinOne 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.PinIt 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.PinEver has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.PinLove one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.PinTravel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.PinBeauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.PinHearts 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.PinIn the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.PinIf my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.PinYou may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.PinWhen 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.PinAnd think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
“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.”
Kahlil Gibran
PinIf the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.PinEvery man loves two women; the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born.PinYour children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.PinYou are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.PinYesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.PinThe optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.PinFor life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
24 Inspirational Kahlil Gibran Quotes on Life and Work (FEARS)
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.”
Kahlil Gibran
PinYou give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.PinWork is love made visible.PinIt is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.PinTo be able to look back upon one’s life in satisfaction, is to live twice.PinProgress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.PinIf you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.PinA little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.PinI have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.PinTenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.PinThe smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.PinIf indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.PinA man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.PinWisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.PinThe teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.PinTo belittle, you have to be little.PinGenerosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.PinWhen you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.PinThe appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.PinComing generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.PinThey deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.PinI have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.PinYesterday is but today’s memory, tomorrow is today’s dream.PinWhen we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
Kahlil Gibran Short Biography
Born on 6 January 1883 in Bsharrī, Lebanon, Gibran Khalil Gibran (also spelled Kahlil) was a writer, poet, and artist.
At 15 Gibran studied at Collège de la Sagesse in Beirut, Lebanon and graduated 3 years later, he then moved to Paris to learn how to paint.
He moved to Boston and held his first art exhibition in January 1904. A year later Gibran would publish A Profile of the Art of Music, which was first released in Arabic.
After some time, Gibran returned to Paris to further his art studies. He made the journey back to the United States and landed on October 22, 1910. Gibran then became a member of the Golden Link Society, a Syrian international organization.
In 1913, Gibran began contributing to a newspaper named Al-Funoon, which was printed in the Arabic language.
Gibran published his most notable and popular book in 1923 entitled The Prophet, centering on topics such as love, sorrow, and religion. Each chapter also contains drawings by Gibran.
After his death, Gibran’s books continued to impact people throughout the world and he became known as the third best-selling poet of all time.
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