Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.
KHALIL GIBRANBe like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.
KHALIL GIBRANYour joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
KHALIL GIBRANYour 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 GIBRANLove is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.
KHALIL GIBRANBut 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 GIBRANWhen you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
KHALIL GIBRANHell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.
KHALIL GIBRANYesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
KHALIL GIBRANYou may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.
KHALIL GIBRANLet there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
KHALIL GIBRANLove is timeless. Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.
KHALIL GIBRANAnd God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.
KHALIL GIBRANThe Mother is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness.
KHALIL GIBRANA woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.
KHALIL GIBRANA traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.
KHALIL GIBRANLove and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
KHALIL GIBRAN