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Love Quotes by Khalil Gibran

119 Love quotes by Khalil Gibran

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Khalil Gibran describes love as a two‑way exchange, like a bee and a flower sharing a fountain of life. He says love cannot be hidden or owned; it simply exists where it truly is. He also links love to freedom, saying that when love releases its bonds it creates an even greater liberty.

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Only love and death will change all things.

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All work is empty save when there is love.

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A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

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Love is quivering happiness.

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“Arbeit ist sichtbar gemachte Liebe.”

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Rob a neighbour with a smile.

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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

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The longing for paradise is paradise itself.

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And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless?

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To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets.

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If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

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“You may give them your love but not your thoughts,”

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If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

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The truly good is he who is one with all those who are deemed bad.

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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

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If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

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A minute moving among the patterns of beauty and the dreams of love is greater and more precious than an age filled…

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When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs…

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“When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, "I am in the heart of God." And…

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Love is a sacred mystery. To those who love, it remains forever wordless; But to those who do not love, it may…

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When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his…

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For a love to grow through the test of everyday living, one must respect that zone of privacy where one retires to…

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Love is life sharing, not for hurt, Love is alive both not ambiguous. Love is whole life, not an affair.

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The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to…

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“Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is…

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God has given you a spirit with wings on which to soar into the spacious firmament of Love and Freedom. Is it…

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God made the world with a heart full of love, Then He looked down from Heaven above, And saw that we all…

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Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless? And yet who does not feel that very love,…

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Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a…

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The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is…

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My house says to me, "do not leave me, for here dwells your past." And the road says to me, "Come and…

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The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch; it will suffer…

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“Then a ploughman said, speak to us of work: in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to…

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“And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of Children. And he said: Your children are…

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Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth. It is the union of two souls…

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Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should…

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My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love what the people abhor and to show good will toward the one…

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Miserable is the man who loves a woman and takes her for his wife, pouring at her feet the sweat of his…

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My friends: Music is the language of spirits. Its melody is like the frolicsome breeze that makes the strings quiver with love.…

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“Kad vas ljubav pozove, podjite za njom, Premda su staze njene tegobne i strme. A kad vas krila njena obgrle, prepustite joj…

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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart…

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.

Hate is a dead thing. Who of you would be a tomb?

Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the…

Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?'

The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.

“follow the steps trust them and yourself”

Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart…

I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.

“That which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space”

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your…

“The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it, And the clay that fills your ears shall be…

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your…

joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

Like the ocean is your god-self; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like the sun…