Kahlil Gibran quotes 

“You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.” 

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

 

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

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

“One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.” 

“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.” 

“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.” 

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

“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”

 

“We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.” 

“Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.” 

“No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.” 

“It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.” 

“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.” 

“To belittle, you have to be little.” 

“You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.” 

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.”