Kahlil Gibran
Libian painter and writer
Lived from: 1883 - 1931
Category: Artists | Writers (Contemporary) Country: United States
Born: 6 january 1883 Died: 10 april 1931
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Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
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I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
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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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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.
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Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love.
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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
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Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
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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 sufficient unto love.
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Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.
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The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.
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Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.
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Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
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