Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you. Khalil Gibran More Quotes by Khalil Gibran More Quotes From Khalil Gibran If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were. Khalil Gibran moving-onmarriagelove Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another ruler with trumpetings again. Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strong men are yet in the cradle. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation. Khalil Gibran farewellstrongart I do not want you to hear that I LOVE you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say. Khalil Gibran wantlove-youfeels When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense. Khalil Gibran journeyspiritualinspirational Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress." And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without." At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty." Khalil Gibran oysterspainbeauty The strong grows in solitude where the weak withers away. Khalil Gibran solitudestrongweak I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. Khalil Gibran educationinspirationallife Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others. Khalil Gibran faultsacceptancerelationship There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea. Khalil Gibran sacredtearssea 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. Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater." But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy. Khalil Gibran sorrowheartjoy Love 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 Gibran dreamlove-isbeautiful It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations. Khalil Gibran emotionalspirituallove The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe. Khalil Gibran tribeshumanscountry But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips. Khalil Gibran spiritualrunningsong You are far, far greater than you know - and all is well. Khalil Gibran wellsgreaterknows It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. Khalil Gibran crushspiritualsweet How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away. Khalil Gibran far-awaypeople Only love and death will change all things. Khalil Gibran love-and-deathlove-of-my-lifechange The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg. Khalil Gibran kingsheartmen 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. Khalil Gibran positiveinspirationallife
