I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Khalil GibranRead
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Interpretation
Love is selfless and does not expect anything in return.
This quote by Khalil Gibran emphasizes the nature of true love as a pure and selfless emotion. It suggests that love is not a transaction; rather, it is an unconditional giving of oneself without the expectation of receiving anything back, highlighting the depth and richness of love as a profound human experience.
In practice
In a wedding speech, celebrating the couple's unconditional love for each other.
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.
Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.
When you go, if you go, And I should want to die, there's nothing I'd be saved by more than the time you fell asleep in my arms in a trust so gentle I let the darkening room drink up the evening, till rest, or the new rain lightly roused you awake. I asked if you heard the rain in your dream and half dreaming still you only said, I love you.
If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging.
There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection.
Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.
The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.
There's a certain feeling of giving, a certain feeling of generosity in love songs. When you sing a song of love, you're actually giving something to yourself, too. You're singing and casting these affirmations of love out into the universe.
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