some other Kahlil Gibran quotes

i like him. a romantic! :)

We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.

The 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.

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

Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

In 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.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Forget not
that the earth delights
to feel your bare feet
and the winds long
to play with your hair.

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.

You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love one another but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together, yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet (ebook, different formats, for free - here)

Kahlil Gibran

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.

― Kahlil Gibran, Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran

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

― Kahlil Gibran

now i feel pretty ignorant… didn’t know about the ‘guy’ :/ Gibran is the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu. (wiki)

downloaded on my kindle his “The Prophet”, his best known work.