Khalil Gibran
Khalil Gibran Quotes
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“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
“Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Khalil Gibran
“Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
Khalil Gibran
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Khalil Gibran
“Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
Khalil Gibran
“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.
Khalil Gibran
“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.
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
“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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
“Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
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
“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.
Khalil Gibran
“I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Khalil Gibran
“If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
Khalil Gibran
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