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I love you when you bow in your mosque,
kneel in your temple, pray in your church.
For you and I are sons of one religion,
and it is the Spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
Related topics: Spiritual Religion
When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran
Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
Lovers embrace that which is between them
rather than each other.
- Khalil Gibran
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran
Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran
Love is the veil between lover and lover.
- Khalil Gibran
Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
- Khalil Gibran
Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
- 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
And you would accept the seasons of your heart
just as you have always accepted
that seasons pass over your fields
and you would watch with serenity
through the winters of your grief.
- Khalil Gibran
When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart,
and you shall see that in truth
you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
- Khalil Gibran
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.
- Khalil Gibran
And think not, you can direct the course of love;
for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
- Khalil Gibran
Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
- Khalil Gibran
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward
is to move toward perfection.
March on, and fear not the thorns,
or the sharp stones on life's path.
- Khalil Gibran
In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
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.
- Khalil Gibran
Trust in dreams, for in them
is hidden the gate to eternity.
- Khalil Gibran
Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the
physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink
his remedy in silence and tranquility.
- Khalil Gibran
Time has been transformed, and we have changed;
it has advanced and set us in motion;
it has unveiled its face,
inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
- Khalil Gibran
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
- Khalil Gibran
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other,
but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
Love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine
You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44
The most powerful form of love is unconditional love.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is love there is no question.
- Albert Einstein
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac
Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We come to love not by finding the perfect person,
but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
- Angelina Jolie
The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
Return love for hate.
- Anonymous
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love.
This is an unalterable law.
- The Buddha
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated,
it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
- Washington Irving
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do...
but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Love is a better teacher than duty.
- Albert Einstein
Where love reigns, there is no will to power;
and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
The one is but the shadow of the other.
- Carl Jung
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Love is like a beautiful flower
which I may not touch,
but whose fragrance makes the garden
a place of delight just the same.
- Helen Keller
I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.
- Roy Croft
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