If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were. – Khalil Gibran
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. – Khalil Gibran
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. – Khalil Gibran
Would that I were a dry well, and that the 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. – Khalil Gibran
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills? – Khalil Gibran
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. – Khalil Gibran
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. – Khalil Gibran
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? – Khalil Gibran
Work is love made visible. And if 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. – Khalil Gibran
The 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. – Khalil Gibran
Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand. – Khalil Gibran
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms. – Khalil Gibran
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. – Khalil Gibran
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. – Khalil Gibran
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path. – Khalil Gibran
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. – Khalil Gibran
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do. – Khalil Gibran
Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. – Khalil Gibran
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. – Khalil Gibran