Kahlil Gibran's quotes

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
Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping, for only the hand of Life can contain your hearts
And stand together, yet not too near together, for the pillars of the temple stand apart and the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow
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Your children are not your children, they are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself
They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you yet they belong not to you
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
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you, for life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday
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You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance
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Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil, for what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters
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Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.
If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas.
For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing;
And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes
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You often say ; I would give , but only to the deserving, The trees in your orchard say not so , nor the flocks in your pasture.
Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and nights is worthy of all else from you.
And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream. See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver , and an instrument of giving.
For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you , who deem yourself a giver , is but a witness
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Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame 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.
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
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.

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Work is love made visible
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The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple among his followers gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.
The astronomer may spaeak to you of his understanding of space, but he cannot give you his understanding.
The musician may sing to you of the rythm which is in all space, but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rythm nor the voice that echoes it
And he who is versed in the science of numbers can tell of the regions of weight and measure, but he cannot conduct you thither
For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man
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There are those who give little of the much which they have – and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome
And there are those who have little and give it all. These are the believers in life and the bounty of life, and their coffer is never empty
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