If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
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Khalil Gibran
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About Khalil Gibran
Jubrān Khalīl Jubrān, usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran, was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist. He was also considered a philosopher, although he himself rejected the title. He is best known as the author of The Prophet, which was first published in the United States in 1923 and has since become one of the best-selling books of all time, having been translated into more than 100 languages.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Khalil GibranLove... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
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Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
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.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
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.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
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.
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
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.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.