If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.
KHALIL GIBRANIf you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.
KHALIL GIBRANI do not want you to hear that I love you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say.
KHALIL GIBRANThe best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
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 GIBRANHow distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
KHALIL GIBRANGenerosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
KHALIL GIBRANHe who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly.
KHALIL GIBRANAn eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
KHALIL GIBRANMen who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
KHALIL GIBRANWisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
KHALIL GIBRANIf your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?
KHALIL GIBRANWe choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
KHALIL GIBRANNature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.
KHALIL GIBRANHow beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.
KHALIL GIBRANLove is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another.
KHALIL GIBRANWe are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
KHALIL GIBRAN