Love Quotes of Gibran Khalil Gibran
LOVE
The power to
Love is God's greatest gift to man,
For it never will be taken from the Blessed on who loves.
SH-T-99
Love lies in the soul alone,
Not in the body, and like wine
Should stimulate our better self
To welcome gifts of Love Divine.
P-61
Man cannot reap love until after sad and revealing separation, and bitter patience, and desperate hardhsop.
TL-T-115
Yesterday I stood at the temple door interrogating the passersby about the mystery and merit of Love.
And before me passed an old man with an emaciated and melancholy face, who sighed and said: "Love is a natural weakness bestowed upon us by the first man."
But a virile youth retorted: "Love joins our present with the past and the future."
Then a woman with a tragic face sighed and said: "Love is a deadly poison injected by black vipers, that crawl from the caves of hell. The poison seems fresh as dew and the thirsty soul eagerly drinks it; but after the first intoxication the drinker sickens and dies a slow death."
Then a beauitiful, rosy - cheeked damsel smilingly said: "Love is a wine served by the brides of Dawn which strengthens strong souls and enables them to ascend to the stars."
After her a black-robed, bearded man, frowning, said: "Love is a divine knowledge that enables men to see as much as the gods."
Then said a blind man, feeling his way with a cane: " Love is a blinding mist that keeps the soul from discerning the secret of existence, so that the heart sees only trembling phantoms of desire among the hills, and hears only echoes of cries from voiceless valleys."
And a feeble ancient, dragging his feet like two rags, said, in quavering tones:
"Love is the rest of the body in the quiet of the grave, the tranquility of the soul in the depth of Eternity."
And a five-year-old child after him, said laughing:
"Love is my father and mother, and no one knows. Love save my father ansd mother."
And so, all who passed spoke of Love as the image of their hopes and frustrations, leaving it a mystery as before.
TM-ST-88
Those whome Love has not chosen as floowlwers do not hear when Love calls.
BW-ST-75
Love is the only flowers that grows and blossoms without the aid of seasons.
BW-ST-54
Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that hte laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.
BW-ST-35
Love passes by us, robed in meekness; but we flee fromher in fear, or ride in the darkness; or else pursue her, to do evil in her name.
WM-ST-46
Love that comes between the naivete and awakening of yourth satisfies itself with possessing, and grows with embraces. But Love which is born in the firmament's lap and has descended with the nights's secrets is not contented with anything but Eternity and immortality; it does not stand reverently before anything except deity.
BW-ST-114
If humanity were to
Lead love's cavalcade to a bed of
Faithless motive, then love there
Would decline to abide. Love is a
Beautiful bird, begging capture,
But refusing injury.
T-369
Love,
When sought out, is an ailment
Between the flesh and the bone,
And only when youth has passed Does the pain bring rich and
Sorrowful knowledge.
T-369
Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.
