Classic quotations from Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet":
Love each other, but don't let love become a constraint; let love become the sea flowing on the shores of your souls.
?Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet"
Your children are not your children. They are the children of life's thirst for itself. They come through you, but not because of you. Although they are by your side, they do not belong to you. You can give them your love, but you cannot give them your thoughts, because they have their own thoughts. You can build houses to shade their bodies, but not their hearts, because their hearts dwell in the House of Tomorrow, and even in their dreams you have no chance to visit.
? Gibran "The Prophet"
I can talk about the good in you, but I cannot talk about the evil. Because isn't evil just good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
? Gibran "The Prophet"
Please don't let our eyes be sore from longing to see your face.
? Gibran "The Prophet"
Love each other, but do not make it a tether of love: just let him be a flowing sea in the middle of the sandy shore of your soul. Fill each other's cups, but do not drink from the same cup. Gradually add bread to each other, but do not eat from the same piece. Dancing and singing happily together, but still leaving each other alone. Even the strings on the lyre are separate, although they vibrate to the same note.
? Gibran "The Prophet"
Your joy is your sorrow without the mask. Even your well, which overflows with joy, is often filled with your tears.
? Gibran "The Prophet"
Love does not know its depth until the moment of separation.
? Gibran "The Prophet"
There are always people who tell you that life is dark. When you are tired, you repeat the language of the tired. And I say that life is indeed dark, unless there is desire, all desire is blind, unless there is knowledge, all knowledge is in vain, unless there is work, all work is empty, unless there is love; When you work with love, you become one with yourself, with others, and with God.
? Gibran "The Prophet"
Your souls understand the secrets of day and night in silence. Your ears long to hear the knowledge and voices of your hearts.
? Gibran "The Prophet"
Your pain is really the understanding that breaks out of the shell. Just like the core of a fruit must break out of the shell before you can enjoy the sunshine, you must also understand the pain.
? Kahlil Gibran's "Prophet"
If he was really wise, he would not let you enter the palace of his wisdom, but guide you to cross the threshold of your own thoughts.
? Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet"
Your body is the harp of your soul. It can make sweet and moving music, or make noisy sounds, it's all up to you.
? Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet"
Thought is a bird that belongs to the sky. In the cage of language, it may spread its wings, but it cannot fly.
? Gibran "The Prophet"
Give your best to your friends. If he must know your ebb, then let him know your ebb as well. Is a friend you only look for when you want to kill time still a friend?
? Gibran "The Prophet"
When you work lovingly, you are in harmony with yourself and with Human beings, connected to God as one.
? Gibran "The Prophet"
You can protect your children's bodies, but you cannot imprison their souls. The child's soul resides in the House of Tomorrow, a place you cannot visit even in your dreams.
? Gibran "The Prophet"
When love calls you, follow it, although its path is difficult and dangerous. When it spreads its wings to embrace you, obey it, although the sharp blades in its wings may hurt you. When it speaks to you, believe it, even though its voice may shatter your dreams like the wind sweeping through the garden flowers. Although love can crown you, it can also crucify you; although it can help you grow, it can also cut and mow you. It will climb to the top of the branches and caress your tenderest leaves that tremble in the sun; but it will also sneak down to your roots and shake your roots that are tightly attached to the earth.
Love each other, but don’t let love become a bondage: it is better to let it become a surging sea, and the two sides are your souls. Fill each other's cups, but do not drink from the same cup. Give bread to each other, but do not eat any of it. They sing and dance together happily, but they are still independent. They talk to each other, but they don't let each other collect them. Because only the hand of life can contain your heart. Stand together but not too close.
? Kahlil Gibran's "Prophet"
Life is indeed dark, unless there is encouragement; all incentives are blind, unless there is knowledge; all knowledge is In vain, unless there is a dream; all dreams are vain, unless there is love.
?Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"
We have gone so far that we have forgotten why we set out
? Khalil Gibran, "The Prophet"
But when you are not satisfied with the expression of your thoughts, you start to speak; when you can no longer live in the loneliness of your soul, you will move to your lips and tongue, and sound becomes a kind of entertainment.
? Gibran "The Prophet"
Some people give happily, and this happiness is their reward. Some people give in pain, and this pain is their baptism.
? Gibran "The Prophet"
Your clothes cover up most of your beauty, but they cannot cover up your ugliness.
? Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet"
Reason alone in power is a limited force; passion without restraint is a self-burning flame.
? Gibran "The Prophet"
Stand together, but not too close. Because the pillars are separated, the temple can be supported. Nor can oaks and cypresses grow in each other's shadow.
? Gibran "The Prophet"
You must accept the seasons in your heart, just as you often accept the four seasons spent in the fields. You have to stay quietly and spend the desolate winter in your heart.
? Gibran "The Prophet"
The child is not actually your child. They are the children of life's thirst for itself. They are born through you, but not from you.
? Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet"
Embracing the past with memory and embracing the future with hope.
?Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet"