Khalil Gibran quote: "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."

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despi...
KHALIL GIBRAN

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier th...
KHALIL GIBRAN

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recomp...
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When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which ...
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They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve...
KHALIL GIBRAN

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing ...
KHALIL GIBRAN

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
KHALIL GIBRAN

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
KHALIL GIBRAN

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have s...
KHALIL GIBRAN

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn...
KHALIL GIBRAN

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.
KHALIL GIBRAN

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold ...
KHALIL GIBRAN

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of trib...
KHALIL GIBRAN

Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you or a zealous one asking what you can do...
KHALIL GIBRAN

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and the...
KHALIL GIBRAN

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
KHALIL GIBRAN

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
KHALIL GIBRAN

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
KHALIL GIBRAN

Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
KHALIL GIBRAN

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

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.
KHALIL GIBRAN

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger amon...
KHALIL GIBRAN

The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
KHALIL GIBRAN

You have your ideology and I have mine.
KHALIL GIBRAN

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come ne...
KHALIL GIBRAN

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the fo...
KHALIL GIBRAN

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

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
KHALIL GIBRAN

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

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the peopl...
KHALIL GIBRAN

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what ...
KHALIL GIBRAN

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
KHALIL GIBRAN

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
KHALIL GIBRAN

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your know...
KHALIL GIBRAN

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
KHALIL GIBRAN

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, an...
KHALIL GIBRAN

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
KHALIL GIBRAN

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affect...
KHALIL GIBRAN

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you n...
KHALIL GIBRAN

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
KHALIL GIBRAN

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
KHALIL GIBRAN

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your j...
KHALIL GIBRAN

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
KHALIL GIBRAN

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
KHALIL GIBRAN

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
KHALIL GIBRAN

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
KHALIL GIBRAN

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itsel...
KHALIL GIBRAN

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of y...
KHALIL GIBRAN

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those with...
KHALIL GIBRAN

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the m...
KHALIL GIBRAN

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to...
KHALIL GIBRAN

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always re...
KHALIL GIBRAN

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from those u...
KHALIL GIBRAN

When life life does not find a singer to sing her heat, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind...
KHALIL GIBRAN

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of li...
KHALIL GIBRAN

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for...
KHALIL GIBRAN

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given yo...
KHALIL GIBRAN

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
KHALIL GIBRAN

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better tha...
KHALIL GIBRAN

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
KHALIL GIBRAN

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
KHALIL GIBRAN

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
KHALIL GIBRAN

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
KHALIL GIBRAN

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
KHALIL GIBRAN

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

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are...
KHALIL GIBRAN

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the tree...
KHALIL GIBRAN

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path...
KHALIL GIBRAN

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
KHALIL GIBRAN

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveile...
KHALIL GIBRAN

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
KHALIL GIBRAN

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
KHALIL GIBRAN

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
KHALIL GIBRAN

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to lif...
KHALIL GIBRAN

If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more, we shall speak again together and you shall s...
KHALIL GIBRAN

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
KHALIL GIBRAN

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unk...
KHALIL GIBRAN

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't...
KHALIL GIBRAN

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

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

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
KHALIL GIBRAN

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
KHALIL GIBRAN

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
KHALIL GIBRAN

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

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you trul...
KHALIL GIBRAN

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorn...
KHALIL GIBRAN

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

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatne...
KHALIL GIBRAN

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
KHALIL GIBRAN

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
KHALIL GIBRAN

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second...
KHALIL GIBRAN

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my b...
KHALIL GIBRAN

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far m...
KHALIL GIBRAN

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to k...
KHALIL GIBRAN

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
KHALIL GIBRAN

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
KHALIL GIBRAN

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
KHALIL GIBRAN

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your h...
KHALIL GIBRAN

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
KHALIL GIBRAN

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, foll...
KHALIL GIBRAN

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
KHALIL GIBRAN

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads yo...
KHALIL GIBRAN

Your friend is your needs answered.
KHALIL GIBRAN

Life is weaker than death, and death is weaker than love.
KHALIL GIBRAN

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

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
KHALIL GIBRAN

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the ...
KHALIL GIBRAN

You cannot have youth and the knowledge of it at the same time; For youth is too busy living to know...
KHALIL GIBRAN

Love which is not always springing is always dying.
KHALIL GIBRAN

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. Whenever you enter into it take with you your all.
KHALIL GIBRAN

...beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is ...
KHALIL GIBRAN

...and your body is the harp of your soul, and it is yours to bring forth sweet music or confused so...
KHALIL GIBRAN

The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy
KHALIL GIBRAN

Rest in reason; move in passion
KHALIL GIBRAN

For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?
KHALIL GIBRAN

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
KHALIL GIBRAN

Love is trembling happiness.
KHALIL GIBRAN

For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, ...
KHALIL GIBRAN MUHAMMAD

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KHALIL GIBRAN MUHAMMAD

For me, it's a shin thing, ... If I feel good, I want to play the final three games to stay where I ...
KHALIL GREENE

The pitches were different, the approaches were different. The pitch today was in a different place ...
KHALIL GREENE

I'm not a big believer in one or two games making a difference in a season. But it was a moment that...
KHALIL GREENE

I disliked the Braves quite a bit.
KHALIL GREENE

It's frustrating, but it's a part of the game. It's disappointing, but there's not much you can do a...
KHALIL GREENE

I was trying to swing the bat with some authority, and not be overly defensive.
KHALIL GREENE

I don't expect to be at the top at the end of the year. When I hit home runs, they tend to come in b...
KHALIL GREENE

Fake people's love has an expiry date, just like them it never lasts
ABDESSLEM KHALIL

The judge asked president Saddam Hussein about his family's statement that his legal team had been f...
KHALIL DULAIMI

Missed Education is like malnutrition Starve the brain you starve the soul You stop understanding yo...
ABDESSLEM KHALIL

Preventing the visits is illegal and prevents the President from having a fair trial.
KHALIL DULAIMI

At this point, it feels OK. It doesn't feel great, but it doesn't feel terrible either.
KHALIL GREENE

I definitely haven't forgotten that [at-bat]. It was a fastball, down and in. I wasn't really having...
KHALIL GREENE

I don't know you and I don't want to know you
ABDESSLEM KHALIL

Becky Rogers hit a couple of jumpers that opened up the offense. She can turn and catch the ball and...
KHALIL SIKANDER

She's an awesome player. She gets her teammates involved. She's a shooter and a scorer. She can crea...
KHALIL SIKANDER

I've always been optimistic. When things come together and I feel comfortable, I know I can be a pro...
KHALIL GREENE

I'm definitely looking to put together a full season. I know what I'm capable of doing. I want to be...
KHALIL GREENE

I am like an oyster, rough and wrinkly from the outside but shiny in the inside
ABDESSLEM KHALIL

I don't really analyze the win-loss aspect and what-ifs. Ultimately, we're trying to play good baseb...
KHALIL GREENE

I think these are the kind of games that you see in the playoffs. And the teams there have an abilit...
KHALIL GREENE

I'm not trying to do too much -- just be aggressive and selective at the same time,
KHALIL GREENE

I could hit it twice and not hit it out to right-center in our place, ... Here (Denver) it's a defin...
KHALIL GREENE

Getting the respect of [my] fellow players is as important as anything to me, ... Acclaim and media ...
KHALIL GREENE

There's a lot of capable of players throughout the system,
KHALIL GREENE

Simplicity is the highest level of elegance
ABDESSLEM KHALIL

I thought I was special until I realised the offer of free rides were not exclusive to one
ABDESSLEM KHALIL

Fakeness is a veil, don't waste time getting too close to see through it
ABDESSLEM KHALIL

You speak so badly, you make spelling mistakes when you talk
ABDESSLEM KHALIL

We have not been duly informed about any certain date for a trial.
KHALIL DULAIMI

I think it will be hard to get people to vote until there is some differentiation between the state,...
WAEL KHALIL

We have called for the closure of the US embassy and the severance of relations with the Americans b...
FATAHI KHALIL

Even if they send pure Muslim or Arab troops we will consider them invaders and will fight them.
FATAHI KHALIL

We know the Americans and the British are too scared to send troops to Sudan after what has happened...
FATAHI KHALIL

It feels great to be back among my teammates. At this moment we are all geared up to playing our bes...
FAISAL KHALIL

After that I will go straight to France and join my team. Honestly, one should not compare the socce...
FAISAL KHALIL

There is a clause in my contract to this effect.
FAISAL KHALIL

I have been called upon to serve my country and I am willing to do everything in my capacity to achi...
FAISAL KHALIL

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other w...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

It is well go give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.
KAHLIL GIBRAN

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.
KAHLIL GIBRAN

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your h...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regre...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be po...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

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

Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his win...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger amon...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unk...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

Your children are not your children.
They are sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from be...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
KAHLIL GIBRAN

Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold y...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love o...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes th...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

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

Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.
KAHLIL GIBRAN

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they n...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
KAHLIL GIBRAN

My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear-a care-woven garment that protects ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering.
KAHLIL GIBRAN

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and re...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
KAHLIL GIBRAN

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
KAHLIL GIBRAN

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cea...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?
KAHLIL GIBRAN

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affect...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
KAHLIL GIBRAN

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
KAHLIL GIBRAN

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unk...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
KAHLIL GIBRAN

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.

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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.

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