“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.”
More from Khalil Gibran on Love
“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... it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.”
“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?”
“Let there be spaces in your togetherness.And let the wind of the heavens dance between you.”
“When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”
Others on Love
Atticus Poetry
20 quotes“From the moment I saw her I knew this onewas worththebroken heart.”
Pablo Neruda
19 quotes“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
Leo Buscaglia
17 quotes“Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both”
Lord Byron
16 quotes“Though I love my country I do not love my countrymen.”
Nicholas Sparks
15 quotes“And I'd be willing to bet that you were great at it, if only because you have to love something before you can hate it.”
Mother Teresa
15 quotes“Let us all smile at each other for a smile is the beginning of love.”
John Donne
14 quotes“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.”
Shakespeare
14 quotes“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.”
Rumi
14 quotes“Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
Balzac
13 quotes“Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.”
Gabriel García Márquez
13 quotes“One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
12 quotes“You're something between a dream and a miracle.”