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 GIBRANIf you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.
More Khalil Gibran Quotes
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Rest in reason. Move in Passion.
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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.
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Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
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How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
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Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.
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Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth.
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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
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The Mother is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness.
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The silence of the envious is too noisy.
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Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.
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I do not want you to hear that I love you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say.
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Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
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How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
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Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
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Listen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.
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Love is timeless. Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.
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Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.
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The best love come from the heart, not from the mouth.
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Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.
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When 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.
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The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.
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A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.
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Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.
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Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.
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The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
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