Let there be no purpose in friendship
by Khalil Gibran

Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran

Related topics: Friendship Relationship

Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans.
- Khalil Gibran

Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
- Khalil Gibran

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
- Khalil Gibran

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran

Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the
physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink
his remedy in silence and tranquility.
- Khalil Gibran

Lovers embrace that which is between them
rather than each other.
- Khalil Gibran

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

When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
- Khalil Gibran

Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward
is to move toward perfection.
March on, and fear not the thorns,
or the sharp stones on life's path.
- Khalil Gibran

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

Love possesses not
nor would it be possessed.
- Khalil Gibran

Love that does not renew itself every day
becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
- Khalil Gibran

When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran

The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness;
and knows that yesterday is but today's memory
and tomorrow is today's dream.
- Khalil Gibran

Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower.
Dream your dream to the sky
and it will bring you your beloved.
- Khalil Gibran

Trust in dreams, for in them
is hidden the gate to eternity.
- Khalil Gibran

When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart,
and you shall see that in truth
you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
- Khalil Gibran

And you would accept the seasons of your heart
just as you have always accepted
that seasons pass over your fields
and you would watch with serenity
through the winters of your grief.
- Khalil Gibran

And think not, you can direct the course of love;
for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
- Khalil 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.
- Khalil Gibran

I love you when you bow in your mosque,
kneel in your temple, pray in your church.
For you and I are sons of one religion,
and it is the Spirit.
- Khalil Gibran

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
- Khalil Gibran

Love is the veil between lover and lover.
- Khalil Gibran

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
- Khalil Gibran

Time has been transformed, and we have changed;
it has advanced and set us in motion;
it has unveiled its face,
inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
- Khalil Gibran

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin

By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth

Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller

Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous

Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Let parents bequeath to their children
not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
- Plato

Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer

Let me bring peace into moments of chaos.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill

Love without jealousy. Love without need.
Let love be an unconditional gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu

Could you risk believing that everything
will unfold just fine if you completely let go
of all concern about everything else,
and simply are here, now - if only for a moment?
- Dmitri Bilgere

Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- John Lennon

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time
like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Miracles are the natural way of the Universe -
our only job is to move our doubting minds aside
and let the miracles flow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding
everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
- Albert Schweitzer

Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't let the past drive life - choose life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden

Follow what you are genuinely passionate about
and let that guide you to your destination.
- Diane Sawyer

Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln

Let today be the day that you choose
to become your own greatest Hero.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers
but to be fearless when facing them.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Live and let live.
- Yiddish Proverb

You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden

Let reason trump tradition and the opinions of others,
but let your own sense of what is Right trump even reason.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -
unless you let him.
- Napoleon Hill

Success seems to be largely a matter
of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather

If we would guide by the light of reason
we must let our minds be bold.
- Louis D. Brandeis

Spread love everywhere you go.
Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
- Mother Teresa

Life is lived in the mists -
little is fully visible, less is certain.
Yet rejoice in the unknowing,
and let all of life be a wonderful adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Let it be.
- Paul McCartney

Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams.
- Anonymous

The hardest part is what to leave behind, ... It's time to let go!
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln

We can let circumstances rule us,
or we can take charge and
rule our lives from within.
- Earl Nightingale

If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau

Positive thinking will let you do everything
better than negative thinking will.
- Zig Ziglar

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie