Khalil Gibran
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Biography
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.
"Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."
"Love is trembling happiness."
"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."
"Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love."
"Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be."
"Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed."
"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."
"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."
"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."
"If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?"
"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."
"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."
"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were."
"Your friend is your needs answered."
"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."
"Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people."
"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."
"If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved."
"The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold."
"Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream."
"Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity."
"Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes."
"Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever."
"Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood."