Quotes by Khalil Gibran

1. 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.
   
2. Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
   
3. If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.
   
4. The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
   
5. Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
   
6. We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
   
7. Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
   
8. Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
   
9. 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.
   
10. Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
    
11. For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
    And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?