Today’s Quote

You pray in your distress and in your need;
would that you might pray also
in the fullness of your joy
and in your days of abundance.

~ Kahlil Gibran ~
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Today’s Quote

Tenderness and kindness are not
signs of weakness and despair,
but manifestations of
strength and resolution.

~ Kahlil Gibran ~
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Love is the only freedom in the world
because it so elevates the spirit
that the laws of humanity
and the phenomena of nature
do not alter its course.

~ Kahlil Gibran ~
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Today’s Quote

Wake at dawn with a winged heart
and give thanks for another day of loving.

~ Kahlil Gibran ~
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You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

~ Kahlil Gibran ~
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Today’s Quote

Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
for love is sufficient unto love.

~ Kahlil Gibran ~
The Prophet

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Ever has it been
that love knows not its own depth
until the hour of separation.

~ Kahlil Gibran ~
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But memory is an autumn leaf
that murmurs a while in the wind
and then is heard no more.

~ Kahlil Gibran ~
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Today’s Quote

Kahlil Gibran

“You may deprive me of my possessions;
you may shed my blood and burn my body,
but you cannot hurt my spirit or touch my truth.”

~ Kahlil Gibran ~
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Today’s Quote

Kahlil Gibran

Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
for love is sufficient unto love.

~ Kahlil Gibran ~
The Prophet

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Today’s Quote

Remembrance is a form of meeting.

~ Kahlil Gibran ~

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Speak to Us of Children — Kahlil Gibran

(From) THE PROPHET
~ Kahlil Gibran ~

Your children are not your children.
They are sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,

which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.

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In the Twilight of Memory

The Farewell
from The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran

Farewell to you and the youth I have spent with you.
It was but yesterday we met in a dream.
You have sung to me in my aloneness,
and I of your longings have built a tower in the sky.
But now our sleep has fled and our dream is over,
and it is no longer dawn.
The noontide is upon us and our half-waking has turned to fuller day,
and we must part.
If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more,
we shall speak again together and
you shall sing to me a deeper song.
And if our hands should meet in another dream
we shall build another tower in the sky.

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For all those who have lost a beloved,
may you meet and speak and love once again
while singing a deeper song.
~ Theresa

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Today’s Quote

In the Twilight of Memory

The Farewell
from The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran

Farewell to you and the youth I have spent with you.
It was but yesterday we met in a dream.
You have sung to me in my aloneness,
and I of your longings have built a tower in the sky.
But now our sleep has fled and our dream is over,
and it is no longer dawn.
The noontide is upon us and our half-waking has turned to fuller day,
and we must part.
If in the twilight of memory we should meet once more,
we shall speak again together and
you shall sing to me a deeper song.
And if our hands should meet in another dream
we shall build another tower in the sky.

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For all those who have lost a beloved,
may you meet and speak and love once again
while singing a deeper song.
~ Theresa