SubscribeKahlil Gibran Love Quotes and Famous Sayings
Posted on Oct 07, 2008 under Gibrān Khalīl Gibrān bin Mikhā'īl bin Sa'ad, K, Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese American Artist, The Prophet | 1 CommentKahlil Gibran’s Love Quotes, Sayings and Poems
1. Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
2. Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
3. And think not you can guide the course of love. For love, if it finds you worthy, shall guide your course.
4. If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.
Other Famous Sayings by Kahlil Gibran
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Excerpt from Wikipedia: Khalil Gibran (born Gibrān Khalīl Gibrān bin Mikhā’īl bin Sa’ad; Arabic جبران خليل جبران بن ميکائيل بن سعد), (January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) was a Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer. Born in the town of Bsharri in modern-day Lebanon (then part of Ottoman Syria), as a young man he emigrated with his family to the United States where he studied art and began his literary career. He is chiefly known for his 1923 book The Prophet, a series of philosophical essays written in English prose. An early example of Inspirational fiction, the book sold well despite a cool critical reception, and became extremely popular in 1960s counterculture.
Famous Sayings by Kahlil Gibran
1. 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?
2. An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
3. If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
4. You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
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Marriage
You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.
You shall be together when white wings of death scatter your days.
Aye, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
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.
Children
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of
Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable
