Some quotations from "Love Letters" a book of letter between Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell

A man can be free without being great, but no man can be great without being free.
(From Kahlil Gibran,s letter May 16,1913.)

I am so happy in your happiness. to you happiness is a form of freedom, and of all the people I know you should be the freest. Surely you have earned this happiness and this freedom. Life cannot be but kind and sweet to you. You have been so sweet and kind to life.
(From Kahlil Gibran's letter. January 24,1923.)

Knowledge is life with wings.
(From Kahlil Gibran's letter. May 15,1917.)

What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more that we think.
(From Kahlil Gibran's letter. October 6,1915.)

Among intelligent people the surest basis for marriage is friendship - the sharing of real interests - the ability to fight out ideas together and understanding each other's thoughts and dreams.
(Kahlil Gibran from Mary Haskell's Journal. May 26,1923.)

What difference does it makes, whether you live ina big city or in a community of homes? the real life is within.
(Kahlil Gibran from Mary Haskell's Journal. May 27,1923)

I often picture myself living on a mountain top, in the most stormy country(not the coldest) in the world. Is there such a place? If there is i shall go to it someday and turn my heart into pictures and poems.
(From Kahlil Gibran's letter. August 14, 1912.)

But now I can put myself i your hands. You can put yourself in another person's hands when he knows what you are doing and as respect for it and loves it. He gives you your freedom.
(Kahlil Gibran from Mary Haskell's Journal. May 27,1923.)

Imagination sees the complete reality, it is where past, present and future meet... Imagination is limited neither to the reality which is apparent, nor to one place. It lives everywhere. It is at a center and feels the vibrations of all the circles within which east and west are virtually included. Imagination is the life of mental freedom. It realizes what everything is in its many aspects... Imagination does not uplift: We don't want to be uplifted, we want to be completely aware.
(Kahlil Gibran from Mary Haskell's Journal. June7,1912.)

What is poetry?
"An extension of vision - and music is an extension of hearing."
(From Kahlil Gibran's letter December 19,1916.)

A true hermit goes to the wilderness to find - not to lose himself.
( From Kahlil Gibran's letter October 8,1913.)

If i accept the sunshine and warmth I must also accept the thunder and lightning.
(Kahlil Gibran from Mary Haskell's Journal. March 12,1922.)

If I can open a new corner in a man's own heart to him I have not lived in vain. Life itself is the thing, not joy or pain or happiness or unhappiness. To hate is as good to love - an enemy may be as good as a friend. Live for yourself - live your life. Then you are most trully the friend of man. I am different every day - and when I am eighty, I shall still be experi menting and changing. Work that I have done no longer concerns me - it is past I have too much on hand in life itself.
(Kahlil Gibran from Mary Haskell's Journal. December 25,1912.)

I realized that all the trouble I ever had about you came from smallness or fear in myself.
(From Mary Haskell's Journal. June 12,1912.)

Follow you heart. Your heart is the right guide in everything big. Mine is so limited. What you want to do is determined by that divine element that is in each of us.
(Kahlil Gibran from Mary Haskell's Journal. September 11,1922.)

The deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship began the first time I saw you, and it is the same now - only a thousand times deeper and tenderer. I shall love you to eternity. I loved you long before we met in this flesh. I knew that when I first saw you. It was destiny. We are together like this and nothing can shake us apart.
(From Kahlil Gibran's letter November 8,1908.)

His love is as restful as Nature itself. He has no standard for you to conform to, no choice about you, but is simply with your reality, just as Nature is. You are real, so is he: the two realities love each other - Voila!
(From Mary Haskell' Journal December 29,1912.)

No human relation gives one possession in another - every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.
(Kahlil Gibran from Mary Haskell's Journal June 8,1924.)

You listen to so much more that Ican say. You hear consciousness. You go with me where the words I say can't carry you.
(Kahlil Gibran from Mary HAskell's Journal June 5,1924.)

More Quotes from Kahlil Gibran

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is hia twin brother.

When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.

You are blind and I an deaf and dumb, so let us touch hands and understand.

You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too self-ful to seek other than itself.
(Abraham Crowley)

Quotes on love

"A mighty pain to love it is, and it'z a pain that to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain."

"So much of what we know of love we learn at home."

"You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without."

"Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes."

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but looking outward together in same direction."
(Saint Exupery)

"A kiss is a lovely trick designied by nature to stop speech when words become superluous."
(Ingrid Bergman)

"I never knew how to worship until i knew how to love."
(Henry Ward Beecher)

"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and a few have seen."
(La Rochefoucauld)

"Better to have loved and lost, than to ahve never loved at all."
(St. Augustine)

"To love another person is to see the face of God."
(Les Miserables)

"Love is but the discovery of yourselves in others, and the delight in the recodnition."
(Alexander Smith)

"When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe."
(La Rochefoucauld)

"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."
(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

"Friendship often end in love; but love in friendship...never."
(Charles Caleb Colton)

"The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time."
(Lawrence Durell)

"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or stimulate it where it does not."
(La Rochefoucauld)

"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love."
(Stendhal)

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
(Thoreau)

"Death is a challenge. it tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other."
(Leo F. Buscaglia)

"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."
(Dr. Karl Menninger)

"Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbour...Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting."
(Mother Teresa)

"To love and win is the best thing. To love nd lose, the next best thing."
(William M. Thackeray)

"If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't their love was never yours to begin with..."
(Unknown)

Love is hard work;and hard work somtimes hurts!"
(Unknown)

"True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away."
(Alicia Barnhart)

"Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever."
(Unknown)

"Love is not blind - it sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to see less."
(Will Moss)

"If love is great, and there are no greater things, then what i feel for you must be the greatest."
(Unknown)

"The eskimos have 52 words for snow because it is so special to them; there ought to be as many for love!"
(Margaret Atwood)

"Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart."
(Unknown)

"Within you I lose myself
Without you I find myself
Wanting to be lost again."
(Unknown)

"Love is not love that alters when it's alteration is found."
(Shakespeare)

"If i could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand."
(Unknown)

"We all want to fall in love. Why?? Because that experience makes us feel completely alive. Where every sense is heightened, every emotion is magnified, our everyday reality is shattered and we are flying into the heavens. It may only last a moment, an hour, an afternoon. But that doesn't diminish its value. Because we are left with memories that we treasure for the rest of our lives."
(Unknown)

"Relationships - of all kinds - are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost."
(Kaleel Jaminson)

"Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood."
(Karen Casey)

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
(Mother Teresa)

"If you would be loved, love and be lovable."
(Benjamin Franklin)

"The sound of a kiss is not so oud as a cannaon, but it's echo lasts a great deal longer."
(Unknown)

Love is... born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation!" (Unknown)

"Countless words, nor countless actions could ever define my feelings for you. True love defies definition."
(Unknown)

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"Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make Earth happy."
(julia Carney)

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"Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not baost, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking.
It is not easily angered, it keeps no recorc of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. Love never fails."
(...Bible)

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"Sooner or later we begin to understand that love is more that verses on valentines and romance in the movies. We begin to know that love is here and now, real and true, the most important thing in our lives. For love is the creator of our favourite memories and the foundation of our fondest dreams. Love is a promise that is always kept, a fortune that can never be spent, a seed that can flourish in even the most unlikely of places. And this radiance that never fads, this mysterious and magical joy, is the greatest treasure of all - one known only by those who love."
(Unknown)

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"Don't forget to love yourself."

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