Khalil Gibran Love Quotations

Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

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.

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

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

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

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot 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 those who work with joy.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

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.

Here I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.

When you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.

When love beckons to you, follow him,Though his ways are hard and steep.And when his wings enfold you yield to him,Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

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.

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

Poetry is not the opinion stated. It is a song that appears instead of a bloody wound or a smiling mouth.

True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does. Anonymous Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Passionate love is a quenchless thirst....

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.

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

That deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship began the first time I saw you,and it is the same now - only a thousand times deeper and tenderer. I shall love you to eternity. I loved you long before we met in this flesh. I knew that when I first saw you. It was destiny. We are together like this and nothing can shake us apart.

And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.

How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

I do not want you to hear that I LOVE you, but I want you to feel it without me having to say.

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.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist.

He alone is great who turns the voice of the wind into a song made sweeter by his own loving.

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.

I love you, my brother, whoever you are - whether you worship in a church, kneel in your temple, or pray in your mosque. You and I are children of one faith, for the diverse paths of religion are fingers of the loving hand of the one supreme being, a hand extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, eager to receive all.

Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness...

Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.” “Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving

A 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.

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.

Only love and death will change all things.

Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.

Love is trembling happiness.

Everyone has experienced that truth: that love, like a running brook, is disregarded, taken for granted; but when the brook freezes over, then people begin to remember how it was when it ran, and they want it to run again.

And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.

Qualities of Good Citizens... is to admire what others have created in love and faith

And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?

Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless? And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the center of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds?

Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower. Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved.

Love is the gentle smile upon the lips of beauty.

For love is sufficient unto love.

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

Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery.

God has given you a spirit with wings on which to soar into the spacious firmament of Love and Freedom. Is it not pitiful than that you cut your wings with your own hands and suffer your soul to crawl like an insect upon the earth?

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

Love is the veil between lover and lover.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain... When you are joyous look deep into your heart and you will find that it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

My house says to me, "do not leave me, for here dwells your past." And the road says to me, "Come and follow me, for I am your future." And I say to both my house and the road, "I have no past, nor have I a future. If I stay here, there is a going in my staying; and if I go there is a staying in my going. Only love and death change all things."

The power to Love is God's greatest gift to man, For it never will be taken from the Blessed one who loves.

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

Love is timeless.... Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.

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

Love is quivering happiness.

Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it. Kahlil Gibran (Visions of the Prophet)

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

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness

Love has the power that dispels death; charm that conquers the enemy.

Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames.

The best love come from the heart, not from the mouth.

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

But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.

And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless? But if in you thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the other seasons, And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.

All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep.