“Love... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.”
More from Khalil Gibran on Love
“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.”
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.”
“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
“Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.”
“Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.”
“Love is trembling happiness.”
“If your heart is a volcano,how shall you expect flower to bloom?”
“When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”
“And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”
Others on Love
Atticus Poetry
20 quotes“I’ll let you into my heart but wipe your feet at the door.”
Pablo Neruda
19 quotes“You are like nobody since I love you.”
Leo Buscaglia
17 quotes“Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to lov...”
Lord Byron
16 quotes“I have not loved the world nor the world me I have not flatter'd its rank breath nor bow'd To its idolatries a patien...”
Nicholas Sparks
15 quotes“Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.”
Mother Teresa
15 quotes“When you judge someone you have no time to love them.”
John Donne
14 quotes“If ever any beauty I did see,Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.”
Rumi
14 quotes“There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension...”
Shakespeare
14 quotes“I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.”
Balzac
13 quotes“The more a man judges, the less he loves”
Gabriel García Márquez
13 quotes“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
12 quotes“You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.”