Waeel Nabluse > Waeel's Quotes

“Observe the wonders as they occur around you.
Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Trust in dreams, for in them is the hidden gate to eternity.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul

“The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

“الحب الذي تغسله العيون بدموعها يظل طاهرًا وجميلاً وخالدًا”
― جبران خليل جبران

“إن صديقك هو كفاية حاجتك , و هو حقلك الذي تزرعه بالمحبة و تحصده بالشكر , هو مائدتك و موقدك , لأنك تأتي إليها جائعا , و تسعى وراءه مستدفئا .”
― جبران خليل جبران

“Hearts united in pain and sorrow
will not be separated by joy and happiness.
Bonds that are woven in sadness
are stronger than the ties of joy and pleasure.
Love that is washed by tears
will remain eternally pure and faithful.”
― Khalil Gibran, Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.”
― Kahlil 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.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?

Seek him always with hours to live.

For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.

And in th sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when he speaks to you believe in him, Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden. For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth......

But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears. 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. And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself."

But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Le Prophète

“Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Essential Kahlil Gibran: Aphorisms And Maxims

“Your children are not your children.
They are sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you.
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For thir souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the make upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness.
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He also loves the bow that is stable.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“مازال في قلبي بقايا .. أمنية
أن نلتقي يوماً ويجمعنا .. الربيع
أن تنتهي أحزاننا
أن تجمع الأقدار يوماً شملنا”
― فاروق جويدة, حبيبتي لا ترحلي

“لا تأخذوه من الحمام

لا ترسلوه إلى الوظيفه

لا ترسموا دمه وسام

فهو البنفسج في قذيفه”
― محمود درويش

“و كن من أنتَ حيث تكون
و احمل عبءَ قلبِكَ وحدهُ”
― محمود درويش

“لي حكمة المحكوم بالإعدام:
لا أشياء أملكها لتملكني،”
― محمود درويش

“اّه ياجرحي المكابر
وطني ليس حقيبة
وأنا لست مسافر
إنني العاشق ...والأرض حبيبة”
― محمود درويش, يوميات جرح فلسطيني

“الحصارُ هُوَ الانتظار
هُوَ الانتظارُ على سُلَّمٍ مائلٍ وَسَطَ العاصفةْ
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لنا اخوةٌ خلف هذا المدى.
اخوةٌ طيّبون.
يُحبُّوننا.
ينظرون إلينا ويبكون.
ثم يقولون في سرِّهم:ليت هذا الحصارَ هنا علنيٌّ..
ولا يكملون العبارةَ:
لا تتركونا وحيدين، لا تتركونا.
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خسائرُنا: من شهيدين حتى ثمانيةٍ كُلَّ يومٍ.
وعَشْرَةُ جرحى.
وعشرون بيتاً.
وخمسون زيتونةً...
بالإضافة للخَلَل البُنْيويّ الذي سيصيب القصيدةَ والمسرحيَّةَ واللوحة الناقصةْ ... ”
― محمود درويش, حالة حصار