Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
KG Kahlil GibranPoet & artist · 1883–1931What this quote means
Real closeness leaves room to breathe. Love is strongest when it connects two whole people rather than binding them into a single self.
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Lebanese-American poet and artist, author of The Prophet, beloved for verses on love, work, and giving.
This line is among the quotes by Kahlil Gibran that readers return to on love, drawn from The Prophet — a small, portable reminder to carry into the morning.
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