Khalil Gibran Love Quotes & Sayings

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

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

The mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale. — Khalil Gibran

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers. — Khalil Gibran

The brooks flow to their lover, the sea, and the flowers smile at the object of their passion, the light. The mist rolls down to its beloved, the valley. And I? In me is what brooks do not know, what flowers do not hear, what the mist does not apprehend. You see me alone in my love, solitary in my yearning. — Khalil Gibran

We who love Him beheld Him with these our eyes which He made to see; and we touched Him with these our hands which He taught to reach forth. — Khalil Gibran

Work is love made visible. And what is it to work with love? the poet Khalil Gibran wrote. In the hospital, working with love sometimes requires putting people in danger. — Theresa Brown

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

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

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. — Khalil Gibran

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

For a love to grow through the test of everyday living, one must respect that zone of privacy where one retires to relate to the inside instead of the outside. — Khalil Gibran

I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute. — Khalil Gibran

Love prides itself not only in the one who loves, but also in the beloved. — Khalil Gibran

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? — Khalil Gibran

Our pain carves out a larger space for love to fill. — Khalil Gibran

The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation. — Khalil Gibran

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

Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery. — Khalil Gibran

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? — Khalil Gibran

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms. — Khalil Gibran

All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself. — Khalil Gibran

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. — Khalil Gibran

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

I'm talking about the love I'm discovering now and doing my best to destroy before it reveals itself. I'd like you to accept it. It's the little I have of myself, but it's not my own. It's not exclusively yours, because there's someone else in my life, but I would be happy if you could accept it anyway. An Arab poet from your country, Khalil Gibran, says: "It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked." If I don't say everything I need to say tonight, I'll merely be a spectator watching events unfold rather than the person actually experiencing them. — Paulo Coelho

A minute moving among the patterns of beauty and the dreams of love is greater and more precious than an age filled with splendor granted by the weak to the strong. — Khalil Gibran

Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth. It is the union of two souls in a strong love for the abolishment of separateness. It is that higher unity which fuses the separate unities within the two spirits. It is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance, and whose ending is Eternity. It is the pure rain that falls from an unblemished sky to fructify and bless the fields of divine Nature. — Khalil Gibran

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

Real beauty lies in the spiritual accord that is called love which can exist between a man and a woman ... — Khalil Gibran

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. — Khalil Gibran

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. — Khalil Gibran

Like sheaves of corn it gathers you unto itself. It threshes you to make you naked. It sifts you to free you from your husks. It grinds you to whiteness. It kneads you until you are pliant. And then it assigns you to its sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast. All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's Heart. — Khalil Gibran

My friends: Music is the language of spirits. Its melody is like the frolicsome breeze that makes the strings quiver with love. When the gentle fingers of Music knock at the door of our feelings, they awaken memories that have long lain hidden in the depths of the Past. The sad strains of Music bring us mournful recollections; and her quiet strains bring us joyful memories. The sound of strings makes us weep at the departure of a dear one, or makes us smile at the peace God has bestowed upon us. — Khalil Gibran

Unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger. — Khalil Gibran

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

The best love come from the heart, not from the mouth. — Khalil Gibran

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

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

Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream. And that that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space. 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 centre of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds? And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless? — Khalil Gibran

Love is the gentle smile upon the lips of beauty. — Khalil Gibran

Hearts united in pain and sorrow
will not be separated by joy and happiness.
Bonds that are woven in sadness
are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure.
Love that is washed by tears
will remain eternally pure and faithful. — Kahlil Gibran

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

God made the world with a heart full of love,
Then He looked down from Heaven above,
And saw that we all need a helping hand,
Someone to share with, who'll understand.
He made special people to see us through
The glad times and the sad times, too;
A person on whom we can always depend,
Someone we can call a friend.
God made friends so we'll carry a part
Of His perfect love in all our hearts. — Khalil Gibran

When you feel Jealousy is a sign that Love should have each other — Khalil Gibran

Love that is cleansed by tears will remain eternally pure and beautiful. — Khalil Gibran

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. — Khalil Gibran

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

Limited love asks for possession of the beloved, but the unlimited asks only for itself. — Khalil Gibran

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. — Khalil Gibran

Give and Take ...
For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life
And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love
And to both, bee and flower,
the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy. — Khalil Gibran

Love is the veil between lover and lover. — Khalil Gibran

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

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

Do not keep crying when your love has been gone. You only need Smile because he had been given you the opportunity to meet someone who is better. — Khalil Gibran

Passionate love is a quenchless thirst ... — Khalil Gibran

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

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