If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. Khalil Gibran More Quotes by Khalil Gibran More Quotes From Khalil Gibran Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be. Khalil Gibran embracespirituallove Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness. Khalil Gibran prideselfheart Your house is your larger body. Khalil Gibran bodyhouse Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. Khalil Gibran starsfaithheart Give me an ear and I will give you a Voice. Khalil Gibran voiceearsgiving Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow. Khalil Gibran sadstrongspiritual All that spirits desire, spirits attain. Khalil Gibran spiritualinspirationallife It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body Khalil Gibran slaverybodymind Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds. Khalil Gibran sowing-seedssowingdoe Humanity looks upon Jesus the Nazarene as a poor-born Who suffered misery and humiliation with all of the weak. And He is pitied, for Humanity believes He was crucified painfully. . . . And all that Humanity offers to Him is crying and wailing and lamentation. For centuries Humanity has been worshiping weakness in the person of the Savior. The Nazarene was not weak! He was strong and is strong! But the people refuse to heed the true meaning of strength. Khalil Gibran strongbelievejesus If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed. Khalil Gibran thronestyrannyfirsts In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond. Khalil Gibran depthdesirelying We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words. Khalil Gibran sevenlanguage I would tell you more of Him, but how shall I? When love becomes vast love becomes wordless. And when memory is overladen it seeks the silent deep. Khalil Gibran silentlove-ismemories For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. Khalil Gibran spiritualinspirationaldeath A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, “I will have a camel for lunch today.” And all morning he went about looking for camels. But at noon he saw his shadow again-and he said, “A mouse will do. Khalil Gibran sunriselunchmorning You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth./The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Khalil Gibran archerarrowschildren All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. Khalil Gibran mindwritingfall For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly. Khalil Gibran communicationspacewings The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. Khalil Gibran starslightnight
