Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
- Topic: Love, Purpose
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More Quotes from Kahlil Gibran
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.
Work is love made visible.
For you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you.
Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.
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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.
To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.
They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.
Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.
You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
One love, one heart, one destiny.
Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.
Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.
Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.
