Khalil Gibran Quotes & Sayings

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”

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

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

“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.”

“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.”

“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.”

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

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

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