Khalil Gibran - Quotes of Wisdom
Quotes from Khalil Gibran, a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer of the New York Pen League. His romantic style was at the heart of a renaissance in modern Arabic literature, especially prose poetry, breaking away from the classical school. In Lebanon, he is still celebrated as a literary hero.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
~ Khalil GibranEver has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
~ Khalil GibranYesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
~ Khalil GibranLove one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
~ Khalil GibranForget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
~ Khalil GibranWhen you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
~ Khalil GibranYour children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
~ Khalil GibranYour pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
~ Khalil GibranYou give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
~ Khalil GibranOut of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
~ Khalil Gibran
