"You speak when you're not at peace with your thoughts."
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from the Daily Prophet
“May there be spaces in your union and may the winds of heaven dance between you. Love one another, but make no bonds of love: let the sea be rough between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cups, but don't drink from one cup. Give each other bread, but do not eat the same bread. Sing and dance together and rejoice, but each of you is alone, As the strings of a lute are alone, though they tremble to the same music. Give your heart, but not for the care of others. For only the hand of life can contain their hearts. And stand close together, but not too close together; for the pillars of the temple stand apart, and the oak and the cypress do not grow in each other's shade."
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from the Daily Prophet
"When love calls you, follow it, even if its paths are difficult and steep. And when its wings envelop you, surrender to it, even if the sword hidden between its wings can hurt it. And when he speaks to you, believe him, though his voice shatters your dreams while the north wind ravages the garden. Because just as love crowns you, it will crucify you. As it is for your growth, so is it for your pruning. As it rises to its height and caresses its tenderest branches that tremble in the sun, so it will descend to its roots and shake them in its communion with the earth...
But if in your fear you seek only the peace and pleasure of love, then it is better for you to cover your nakedness and come out of the age of love, into the eternal world, where you should laugh, but not all your laughter and crying , but not all your tears Love gives nothing but itself and takes nothing but itself.
Love does not possess, nor would it be possessed; Because love is enough to love. And don't think you can direct the course of love, if you think you're worthy, direct its course. Love has no other desire than to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must have desires, let these be your desires: to melt and be like a flowing stream singing its melody in the night. Know the pain of so much tenderness. Being hurt by your own understanding of love; And bleed with will and joy."
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from the Daily Prophet
"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself."
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from the Daily Prophet
“The timeless in you is aware of the timelessness of life. And you know that yesterday is just today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from the Daily Prophet
"And don't forget that the earth is happy to feel your bare feet and the wind longs to play with your hair."
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from the Daily Prophet
“Some of you say, 'Joy is greater than sadness', others say, 'No, sadness is greater'.
But I tell you, they are inseparable.
They come together, and if one sits alone with you at your table, remember that the other sleeps in your bed."
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from the Daily Prophet
“You give little when you give of what you have.
When you give, you really give."
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from the Daily Prophet
"To make it smaller, it must be small."
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from the Daily Prophet
"Love one another, but do not form bonds of love:
Let there be a rough sea between the shores of your soul.
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from the Daily Prophet
“You pray in your fear and in your need; I want you too to be able to pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of plenty.
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from the Daily Prophet
“Beauty is eternity looking at itself in the mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from the Daily Prophet
“When you break up with your boyfriend, you don't suffer;
Because what you love most about him might be clearer in his absence than
the mountain for the climber is clearer than the plain.”
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from the Daily Prophet
“And a woman spoke and said: Speak to us of pain.
And he said: Your pain is the cracking of the shell that encloses your mind.
Just as the heart of a fruit must be broken in order for your heart to rise to the sun, so you must know pain.
And if you could keep your heart in wonder at the daily wonders of your life, your pain would seem no less wonderful than your joy;
And you would accept the seasons of your heart as you have always accepted the seasons that pass through your fields.
And you would wake with serenity through the winters of your pain.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter drink through which the doctor in you heals your sick self.
So trust the doctor and take your medication in peace and quiet:
Because his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the unseen,
And the cup he brings, though burning his lips, was made of the mud
Potter wet with His own holy tears."
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from the Daily Prophet
"Love knows its own depth only at the moment of separation"
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from the Daily Prophet
"How noble is the sorrowful heart, whose pain does not prevent it from singing a song with joyful hearts."
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from the Daily Prophet
“We wanderers, always in search of the loneliest path, do not begin a day where another day ends; and no sunrise finds us where the sunset left us. Even when the earth sleeps, we travel. We are seeds of the tenacious plant, and in maturity and fullness of heart we give ourselves to the wind and scatter."
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from the Daily Prophet
“You have been told that even as a chain you are only as weak as your weakest link.
This is only the half truth.
You are only as strong as your strongest link.
Measuring yourself by the smallest deed is recognizing the power of the ocean.
due to the brittleness of its foam.
To judge him for his failures is to blame the seasons for his fickleness.
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from the Daily Prophet
"Because what is your friend that you have to spend hours looking for to kill?
Always look for it with Hours of Life.
Because it is up to him to fill your need, but not your emptiness.
And in the sweetness of friendship there is shared laughter and pleasure.
For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from the Daily Prophet
“No one can reveal more to you than what you know to be half asleep at dawn.
The teacher who walks among his followers in the shadow of the temple does not give his wisdom, but his faith and love.
If he is truly wise, he does not invite you into the house of his wisdom, but takes you to the threshold of his own mind.
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from the Daily Prophet
“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and shared joys. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from the Daily Prophet
“The pain you feel is the rupture of the shell that surrounds your consciousness. And just as the hard shell that covers the fruit must be broken so that your heart may come out of the darkness of the earth into the light of the sun. .. for if you knew how to give the wonders of your daily life the right of contemplation and admiration Pain is the strongest potion of bitterness, with which the wise and watchful physician heals the ills of their human souls in the depths..."
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from the Daily Prophet
"For what is evil if not good, tormented by its own hunger and thirst?"
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from the Daily Prophet
"Don't say, 'I have found the truth,' say, 'I have found a truth.'
Don't say, "I have found the way of the soul." Instead, say, "I have found the soul to walk my path."
Because the soul goes all ways.
The soul does not walk on a leash, nor does it grow like a reed.
The soul unfolds like a lotus with innumerable petals."
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from the Daily Prophet
"Love one another, but do not make love a chain:
Instead allow it to be a sea rippling between the shores of your souls.
Let one fill the other's cup... But don't drink from a cup.
And that he gives you another piece of his bread... But don't eat the same bread
Sing and dance together, rejoice, but leave each of you alone
Just as the strings of a violin are alone, though they tremble with the same music.
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from the Daily Prophet
"The deeper sadness digs a hole in your being, the greater your ability to contain more joy."
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from the Daily Prophet
"Your children are not yours.
Your children are children of life's longing for itself, they are born for you, but not by you.
Although they live with you, they do not belong to you.
You can give them your love, but you cannot plant them the seeds of your thoughts because they have their own thoughts.
It is in your power to make spokespersons for your bodies.
But their souls do not live in their abodes.
She lives in the apartment of tomorrow that you can't even visit in your dreams.
And that you strive to become like them.
But you try in vain to please them.
Because life does not return and does not live in yesterday's house.
You are the bows and your children are the living arrows that life shot from its bows.
The archer looks at the sign on the road to infinity and twists it with his power so his arrows are fast and long-range.
So let yourself squirm in the hands of the wise archer for pleasure and bliss.
For as he loves the arrow that flies from his bow, so he loves the bow in his hand.
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from the Daily Prophet
"And do not think that you can direct the course of love, for love directs your course when it deems you worthy."
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from the Daily Prophet
"When love calls you, follow it,
Although its ways are difficult and steep.
And when its wings envelop you, surrender to it,
Although the sword hidden between his wings can hurt him.
And when he talks to you, believe him
Although her voice can destroy your dreams while the north wind ravages the garden...
But if in your fear you only sought the peace of love and the pleasure of love,
So it is better for you to cover your nakedness and die.
it was love
In the world without seasons where you have to laugh but not all your laughter
and cry, but not all your tears...
But if you love and must have desires, let these be your desires:
Melt and be like a stream that sings its tune at night.
Know the pain of so much tenderness.
Being hurt by your own understanding of love;
And bleed with will and joy."
― Kahlil Gibran, quote from the Daily Prophet
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Place of birth:in Bisharri, Lebanon
birth date6 January 1883
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