Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

- Khalil Gibran

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

- Khalil Gibran

Love is trembling happiness.

- Khalil Gibran

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

- Khalil Gibran

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

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

- Khalil Gibran

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

- Khalil Gibran

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

- Khalil Gibran

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

- Khalil Gibran

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

- Khalil Gibran

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

- Khalil Gibran

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

- Khalil Gibran

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

- Khalil Gibran

Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.

- Khalil Gibran

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

- Khalil Gibran

Your friend is your needs answered.

- Khalil Gibran

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. 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

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

- Khalil Gibran

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

- Khalil Gibran

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

- Khalil Gibran