Quotes – Kahlil Gibran
“Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.”
“Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.”
“I 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.”
“Would that I were a dry well, and that people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.”
“If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall sing to me a deeper song.”
“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.”
“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”
“Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.”
“And let to-day embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.”
“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.”
“A traveler I am, and a navigator, and every day I discover a new region within my soul.”
“Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.”
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
“One of the hardest lessons in life is letting go. Whether it’s guilt, anger, love, loss. Change is never easy. You fight to hold on, and you fight to let go.”
“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.”
“I 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.”
“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.”
“A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?”
“When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the “nay” in your own mind, nor do you withhold the “ay.”
And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart;
For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.
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.
And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.”
On Friendship
“Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.”
On Love
Kahlil Gibran
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